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						<title>Worsening pollution audit &apos;completely unacceptable&apos; says Fonterra</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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						<title>Jobs lost as dairy firm goes into receivership</title>        
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						<description>Taranaki-based Organic Dairy Limited, owned by New Zealand Organic Dairy Farmers Co-operative, has gone into receivership owing an estimated $15 million and costing about 30 jobs.Receivers were appointed on Friday and the Okato...</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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						<title>&apos;New generation&apos; free-trade deal talks start today</title>        
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						<description>Talks begin in Melbourne today to lift what began as a 2001 pact between New Zealand and Singapore to a powerful &quot;new generation&quot; regional free trade deal that the United States has made a top trade priority.The US is already...</description>
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						<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:42:47 +1200</pubDate>
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