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Rabobank is forecasting an opening milk price of $8.40 a kilo of milk solids for the next dairy season - but it is warning the global dairy price recovery is going to be slower than expected.

A joint venture working to reduce on farm emissions is doubling down on efforts to create a vaccine.

The profit is a standout considering other major meat players, Silver Fern Farms and Alliance, have posted big losses.

One of them said Wellington was "a vortex sucking cash out of the rest of the economy".

After the devastation wreaked by Cyclone Gabrielle, Kaipara's kumara growers are celebrating a bumper harvest.

If the bird flu infecting cows in the US figures out human-to-human transmission, the timing could not be worse, a prominent Kiwi flu researcher says. Audio

NZ could have a competitive advantage to be the closest to net zero dairy in the world, fifth-generation farmer Stu Taylor says. Audio

It's the opening day of the game bird season and more than 5000 shooters are expected to turn out today in the Otago region alone.