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Country News

• Floor set for milk prices
  Prices appear to have stabilised at the Global Dairy Trade auction, stopping the previous slide. […]
• Rural communities rally to help flood-hit farmers rebuild damaged fences
  A Marlborough company has sent a delivery of thousands of free fence posts to farmers in need around neighbouring Kaikōura. […]
• Calving time has Northland stud farm seeing double
  Sam Biddles' cows have produced 11 sets of twins already, with a quarter of the herd yet to give birth. […]
• Country Life: Lessons from land in John Connell's The Wisdom of Farmers
  The whole world can take lessons from farmers, Irish farmer and the author says. […]
• Country Life: Timorese lend hand in NZ orchards
  Thousands of Timorese applied to join New Zealand's seasonal worker scheme, which opened to Timor-Leste for the first time this year. […]
• Community, unions meet over Lyttelton Port takeover bid, as decision looms
  The port where $7.5 billion of South Island exports head offshore could be run by Emirati state-owned port operator. […]
• Drone delivers supplies to cut off Marlborough community
  After a bridge was washed away in floodwaters last week, a group of about 40 farming families were left without an easy way to get groceries. […]
• Newly arrived H5N1 bird flu likely to take hold in New Zealand, MPI says
  A seabird found on Wellington's Petone beach has tested positive for the potentially deadly H5 strain of the virus. […]
• Seabird found on Wellington beach tests positive for H5 bird flu
  Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard says the bird was a single brown skua. […]
• The H5N1 strain of bird flu has been confirmed in NZ. What now?
  The first bird in New Zealand has tested positive for the deadly strain affecting wildlife around the world. Here's what you need to know. […]
• Landmark NZ study finds link between pre-natal exposure to nitrate in drinking water and premature births
  More than 100 premature births each year could be attributed to nitrate in drinking water, a new study has found. […]