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Rural

Farms well prepped for winter blast

19 Jun 13, 6:10pm, Katie Milne
Federated Farmers offers a checklist of things for the coming storms, especially lifestyle block owners

Greens drop money printing plan

Updated 19 Jun 13, 10:22am, Bernard Hickey
Greens drop plan to print money to buy infrastructure bonds; say policy change makes Labour coalition easier; change came after feedback from exporters

Up, up and away with the internet

19 Jun 13, 9:00am, Guest
William Rolleston loves what Google is trialing for rural broadband and sees it as another innovation to help farmers feed the world. Your view?

90 seconds at 9 am: Dairy prices up

19 Jun 13, 8:50am, David Chaston
Signs Bernanke may step down; US housing starts higher, CPI low; Deloitte fined and barred in NY; dairy prices rise; NZ$1 = US$0.800, TWI = 74.2

The Weekly Livestock Report

18 Jun 13, 9:54pm, Tony Chaston
Market progress for sheep, venison schedules move at last, and more patience required before inevitable beef upturn occurs.

Season ends with very strong farm sales

18 Jun 13, 4:20pm, David Chaston
180 farms were sold in May, the most for a May since 2008 and the highest for any month since March 2012; prices per hectare hold

Wheeler’s calculated gamble

18 Jun 13, 8:54am, Roger J Kerr
Roger J Kerr says the inevitable increases in the OCR in early 2014 are likely to be larger and more rapid than what most expect. Your view?

90 seconds at 9 am: Waiting for the FOMC

18 Jun 13, 8:42am, David Chaston
Taper timeline wanted; bond markets brace; US factories upbeat; criminal charges in Libor case; China credit crunch worsens; NZ$1 = US$0.798, TWI = 74.0

Short-term NZD gains not sustainable in the medium term

18 Jun 13, 8:08am, Roger J Kerr
Roger J Kerr sees the NZD/USD trading range between 0.75 and 0.83 over the next year. Your view?

Opposition eyes new monetary policy

Updated 17 Jun 13, 10:56am, Bernard Hickey
Labour/Green/NZ First Inquiry recommends 'new orthodox' monetary policy without details; see local-first govt procurement & extended R&D tax breaks for manufacturers; Joyce dismissive
17 Jun 13, 8:42am 90 seconds at 9 am: Rate fixing
14 Jun 13, 3:40pm 'Queenstown Lakes change in direction a positive example'
14 Jun 13, 8:40am 90 seconds at 9 am: Record harvests
14 Jun 13, 8:28am NZ to be 'a fruit bowl for Asia'
13 Jun 13, 11:55am Turkish agriculture must be seen to be believed
13 Jun 13, 9:08am RBNZ lifts rate track 10-20 bps
13 Jun 13, 8:36am 90 seconds at 9 am: Rising rates
12 Jun 13, 11:08am The Weekly Livestock Report
12 Jun 13, 8:56am 90 seconds at 9 am: Growing angst
11 Jun 13, 6:06pm Industry heavyweights focus on next steps
11 Jun 13, 1:02pm Icon vineyard to be sold
11 Jun 13, 9:44am GMP set at $7 kgMS
11 Jun 13, 8:45am 90 seconds at 9 am: Upgrades
11 Jun 13, 8:23am Big gains coming
11 Jun 13, 8:00am Economic outlook positive, both short and long-term
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Rural credit

These charts report the growth in credit used by the rural sector in New Zealand. The data is provided by the RBNZ about one month after the end of each period.