beef Last time Marie Taylor went to buy some Wagyu steaks, the New World supermarket butcher said the marbled meat was too expensive to stock at $125/kg and it was all being exported. She investigates what the country’s taxpayers will get for their new $11 million investment in a PGP involving the super-expensive, and delicious, marbled grass-fed beef.

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China has overtaken Britain as the biggest market by value for New Zealand’s sheep meat industry.

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New Zealand meat exports held up on Chinese wharves by a bureaucratic blockade may have been delayed partly due to Chinese efforts at curbing counterfeit meat sales, Prime Minister John Key has suggested.

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Don McLeod has had an extensive career within the poultry industry, dedicating the majority of his working life to a handful of different companies over a 40 year period.

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Lamb is off the menu at McDonalds, much to the disappointment of sheep farmers now looking at other countries to pick up the lamb burger trade.

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A reform group determined to make the red meat industry profitable has lined up two further farmer gatherings in Gisborne and Te Kuiti, after farmers who are disheartened with low prices have flocked to meetings.

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The prolonged dry period and its effect on winter crops will be what farmers remember about this year and tell future generations, Southland Federated Farmers president Russell MacPherson says.

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When farmers want certainty of income and livestock prices aren’t very good, thoughts often turn to fixed price contracts.

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Farmers dipped into their own pocket to make the Christchurch meeting of the Meat Industry Excellence (MIE) group happen.

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More than 1000 cows on a large Taupo dairy farm were left dangerously thin, sick and "sad'' after months of being underfed, a court has heard.

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Red Oak Angus owner Ric Orr has added heat to the bull sale season by putting up an alternative to the “massive engine” of estimated breeding values (EBVs).

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A Southland meat company says it will not be able to meet China's demand for low-value meat cuts in the "foreseeable future" if China's population continues to grow.

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Viability Show In rural Confidence Survey

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A reform group determined to make the red meat industry profitable has lined up two further farmer gatherings in Gisborne and Te Kuiti, after farmers who are disheartened with low prices have flocked to meetings.

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New Zealand’s worst drought in 30 years has come to an end, as significant rainfall in late April brought relief to the heavily drought-stricken North Island (Federated Farmers of NZ).

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Major trading partner China has signed a strategy today with New Zealand to promote more agricultural co-operation between the countries.

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After a raid on two properties in South Auckland, (MPI) investigators issued warrants after they uncovered what they believe to be an illegal poultry operation.

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Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy has signed a Strategic Plan on Promoting Agricultural Cooperation between New Zealand and China today.

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Beef + Lamb New Zealand Chief Executive Dr Scott Champion says a recent paper by Dr Alec McKay, published in the Proceedings of the New Zealand Grasslands Association, used the Overseer model to look at the changes in the relationship between inputs (eg, livestock numbers, nutrients) and outputs (eg, meat and fibre, greenhouse gas emissions, nitrate).

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''Band-aid solutions'' might be needed to avoid potential problems in the red meat sector next season, but a long-term view is essential to finding the right solutions, Meat Industry Excellence chairman Richard Young says.

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BIG ASK: MIE chairman Richard Young tells farmers that meat industry reform must have the support of the meat companies.

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Feeding the supply chain with 2450 lambs in the 2011-2012 season helped Rimrock Hills on the Taihape - Napier Road become Supplier of the Year for Ovation New Zealand.

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An extra $10 to $20 per animal was the reward dangled before farmers at last week's meeting to revolutionise the New Zealand meat industry.

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A quota-type system through Tradeable Slaughter Rights (TSR) is being put forward as a solution for the red meat industry to sort out over-heated competition for livestock.

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The farmer-meeting planned for Feilding on Friday April 26th will now be run under the Meat Industry Excellence (MIE) banner, says local organiser and farmer, John McCarthy.

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Meat companies cannot afford to suffer more financial losses after losing $200 million last season, and farmers must commit stock to one company to ensure a healthy red- meat industry, says Lincoln University agribusiness professor Keith Woodford.

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There's hope tariffs on New Zealand meat being sent to Japan will be eventually lifted.

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More northern beef schedule lifts as supply shortages for quality animals starts to appear.

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Agreement on a plan to reform the meat industry could be known in as soon as two months.

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Positive signs have appeared in overseas lamb markets after a number of tough months saw high turnoff and low prices.

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Kiwi beef could soon be replenishing supermarket shelves in Latin America.

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Northern South Island farmers have joined their southern counterparts in supporting an overhaul and restructuring of the red-meat sector.

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International trade specialist George Rutherford has been newly appointed to the New Zealand Meat Board by Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy.

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New Zealand company, Greenlea Premier Meats, is constantly looking to find new and better ways to work. Thus for some time they had been looking for an intelligent deboning and trimming system that would improve efficiency and give better results – when they got introduced to Marel’s StreamLine system.

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Farmers pointing the finger at meat companies over poor returns this season are blaming the wrong people, Anzco Foods chairman Sir Graeme Harrison says. Sir Graeme is blaming wool prices for the whole miss-management of the meat industry showing how out of touch he is.

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The attendance of about 600 farmers at Wigram yesterday might not have matched the 1000 farmers at the first gathering in Gore, but the result was the same for the Meat Industry Excellence (MIE) group, with farmers wanting change and disillusioned by volatile prices.

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The two biggest meat companies - Silver Fern Farms and Alliance Group - are both farmer-owned. They have talked about joining forces and would have 50 to 60 per cent of the product to market if they did.

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The farmer-meeting planned for Feilding on Friday April 26th will now be run under the Meat Industry Excellence (MIE) banner, says local organiser and farmer, John McCarthy.

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Federated Farmers president Bruce Wills has been appointed to the board of a group which represents farmers from more than 50 countries.

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The New Zealand dollar is heading for a 1.8% fall against the greenback as optimism about the health of the global economy fades, sapping demand for risk-sensitive assets.

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Rural workers earn considerably more than their urban counterparts, a new remuneration survey has shown.

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Pork producers will take their case against allowing overseas pig meat in New Zealand to the final legal port of call, the Supreme Court.

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As a result of a TESCO review of branded products in the protein cabinet Silver Fern Farms will supply a new range for TESCO which is likely to increase supply four-fold.

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The North Island offering of 7615 bales saw a softening at last week’s wool sale despite a weakening in the US dollar.

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SCHEDULE prices from New Zealand's North Island processors have remained firm on last week despite tightening supply, according to the weekly NZX Agrifax market report.

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Allan Barber is puzzled by the bad rap the meat industry gets when it has done a good job producing products for which the market pays a premium price.

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New Zealand fresh produce demand is on the rise from the UAE's F&B sector including hotels, retail outlets and restaurants, revealed New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) - the country's trade arm.

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Another large turnout mirroring the first Gore gathering of 1000 farmers is expected at a Christchurch meeting to get better returns for the red meat industry.

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Hundreds of frustrated Southland and Otago farmers will ask meat companies to develop a Fonterra-like structure at a rally in Gore next week to try to save the red-meat industry.

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The freezer works management should be bloody well kicked down the road the useless bunch of college boys.

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The infected animals in four herds of cattle are set to be slaughtered, in an attempt to get rid of an outbreak of bovine tuberculosis in Taranaki.

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NEW Zealand's peak farmer lobby group has distanced itself from climate change sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton.

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Mixed signals for beef and sheepmeat demand came through loud and clear during a whistle-stop tour of major markets by senior managers of the Alliance Group.

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Total NZ beef and veal exports during March reached 50,376 tonnes swt, up 43% year-on-year, and 34% on the five-year average (Beef + Lamb NZ).

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The most severe drought in about 70 years is expected to slash some farm incomes by up to $300,000 a year and is likely to leave some farmers making a loss for the year.

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New Zealand’s meat-processing companies might have had pre-tax losses totalling about $200 million in the latest September year.

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There is a chance the wet weather expected to break the drought for parts of the North Island tomorrow and Tuesday will return by the end of the week, as forecasts hint at an end to the long dry conditions.

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Farmers and the police at Wellsford, north of Auckland, have celebrated the conviction and sentencing of cattle rustler Nigel John Collins, a dairy farmer of Tomarata.

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Beef + Lamb New Zealand Chief Executive Officer, Dr Scott Champion is in Mexico to talk with Mexican sheep and beef industry interests about the opportunities that will occur when the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is agreed.

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