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Dairy Farming Costs

8 items · 8 aliases · peaked week of 14 Jun 2026 · first seen 10 May 2026

A dairy farmer in Morrinsville reports significant financial loss due to a technician's failure to successfully inseminate part of his herd.

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

Alias drift

How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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In the press Methodology →

How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 2 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.

12-week press volume 2 articles
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Heard on radio

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  • We had um uh public transport, which is actually reasons. Ag policy. Ag policy, Jamie. We're just following the national party. All they said is they're not going to do anything, and they'll take everything away, which is which was their policy leading up to the last election. Um we'll just we will be releasing some ag policy. We'll be carefully considering it. I was down today just listening to some of the um parts of the collective uh catchment collective forum that's in parliament here. Um most of the money that they have been relying on came from the actually last Labour government has been a little bit drilled out to them from this current government, but they're actually wondering where to go next. And it is a great initiative. I think we set up about 200 off the catchment groups. Um good way forward, uh, but now they don't have money. But to be fair, you know, the government's been splashing around a bit of money to Dairy and Z to Parmu to um, you know, to help with with uh Holter and and uh other places, Zesprie. Actually, I would have thought that they all had quite a bit of money at the moment, and the money would have been better spent back towards the catchment groups helping them go forward. But anyway, that's the that's the coalition government for you.
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the-country Government / N-A

catchment groups face funding cuts despite prior investment

The Country 16/06/26: Damien O'Connor talks to Jamie Mackay
16 Jun
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How the public reacted

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