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						<title>Dairy pollution news &apos;totally unacceptable&apos;</title>        
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						<description>New Zealand dairy farmers are failing to clean up their act, according to the latest audit of the sector, with effluent rule compliance getting worse in the past year.Agriculture minister David Carter, Fonterra and farmer groups...</description>
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						<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:51:59 +1200</pubDate>
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						<title>Real Estate Institute sees ray of hope for farm sales</title>        
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						<description>Despite a big drop in prices since 2008, interest in farm sales is starting to pick up as bank lenders return to the market, the Real Estate Institute says.The median price for a dairy farm for the three months to February was...</description>
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						<title>Farm prices collapse 40pc in two years - dairy sales crash 78pc</title>        
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						<description>Farm prices and sales volumes have collapsed in the last two years as the withdrawal of easy bank lending has dried up farmers&apos; appetites for capital gains, fresh figures show.The slump in the number of transactions is expected...</description>
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						<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:50:25 +1200</pubDate>
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