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		<title>Dairy Industry: NZ Farming Systems Draws Out Rival Bidders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Craig Norgate dreamed up a good idea at the wrong time when he proposed PGG Wrightson set up and spin-off a business developing dairy farms in Uruguay. The global financial crisis hit and NZ Farming Systems Uruguay couldn&#8217;t raise debt funding to finish the job. It was also marked down as a stock because of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tertiary: Agriculture Failing To Educate For Its Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NZ&#8217;s output of people with tertiary qualifications in agriculture is falling behind the country&#8217;s needs as a generation of students is put off farming by perceptions it is &#8220;too hard,&#8221; has uncertain income and does not bring the lifestyle it used to. Massey University professor Jacqueline Rowarth told Parliament&#8217;s primary production committee the country is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agricultural Skills: Agriculture failing To Educate For Its Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NZ&#8217;s output of people with tertiary qualifications in agriculture is falling behind the country&#8217;s needs as a generation of students is put off farming by perceptions it is &#8220;too hard,&#8221; has uncertain income and does not bring the lifestyle it used to. Massey University professor Jacqueline Rowarth told Parliament&#8217;s primary production committee the country is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farm Finance: Weak Capital Markets Hindering Farming Sector</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FedFarmers CEO Conor English is warning NZ&#8217;s capital markets and economy are suffering from a lack of savings and capital depth. He says in the mid 1980s NZ had a Govt which pronounced agriculture a sunset industry, and Wellington would become a Zurich of the South Pacific but this never happened. &#8220;Wellington has been asleep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dairy Sector: Dairy Industry&#8217;s Image Has Taken A Drubbing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The dairy industry&#8217;s various battles over resources, including water, have meant new phrases have entered the public consciousness, like it or not. &#8220;Dirty dairying&#8221; is an example. DairyNZ has kicked off a $2m &#8220;Go Dairy&#8221; campaign, initially with TV ads, later newspaper and magazine features as well as a school campaign,  aimed at an [...]]]></description>
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