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Dairy Season Wind-Down

3 items · 3 aliases · peaked week of 24 May 2026 · first seen 6 May 2026

Global milk prices rise following a period of declines, driven by reduced dairy volumes as the season ends and strong demand from Southeast Asia and Oceania, amid ongoing geopolitical and input cost challenges.

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

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

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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

Verbatim segments from politicians speaking on podcasts and radio shows about this topic. Sourced via the voice-reference library — each speaker has been confirmed manually from their voice clip. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts.

  • Much appreciated at my end. What a great yarn that was. What a great story, Paul. Where did I get Paul Buick from? Let's try David Buick uh has to tell. Okay, I'm I shouldn't be multitasking. I'm trying to talk and read it at the same time. I'm a bloke. I can't do that, but the feedback's coming in thick and fast on the tax line 5009. Uh here's a good one. Um, an interesting one. Why is protecting uh productive land from wilding pines so important in terms of landscapes, tourism, food production, and conservation, yet extremely productive land is being covered in solar panels and outstanding natural landscapes being planted in wind turbines. A bit hypocritical, says our texture. Uh in answer to my question, who's the most farmer friendly prime minister we've ever had? Here's one for Sid Holland. He owned a farm whilst being PM, his grandson and granddaughter farm it now. Here's another one from Hawks Bay. Paul telling me he would put his orchard on Katie Niman retaining Napier. Another one for Christopher Luxon, Prime Minister, please stop telling us things are fantastic. Um here's another one. I agree. I'm a Napier and a national voter, but Katie Niman has been ineffectual. Love your program. Thank you. I won't name your name because Katie might be listening. Um, here's one for the Grammar Nazis are getting me. Uh this is Karmer, I reckon. Come on, Jamie. Him and his wife, and my reference to my comments made to uh David Buick, it should be he and his wife. Just saying. Good on you, Bevan. Gotta suck it up when you're wrong. Keith Holyoke, number one for farmer friendly Prime Minister, Sid Holland number two. Luxon number three, Bulger number four, never ever, never any Labor leader, says another. Uh Jamie, what is it you have against Lux and International? And don't try to trot out the old cliche that it's all about a balanced approach. That's one of the greatest compliments I've ever had in my broadcasting career. I take that as a real compliment that you think that. Um Jamie, don't forget Mickey McDonald as one of those hard bugs that would share all day and work all night. Really good text, that one. Of course, he is a legend. Alan McDonald, this is, and he was on country calendar. Was it last Sunday? Yeah, I think it was, or was it the Sunday before? Uh what a champion bloke he is as well.
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Sample framings

Up to 12 framings spread across orientations. Each framing is a short phrase the topic extractor generated to characterise the piece's stance — not a quote from the source. Click through to read the original.

the-country Government / N-A

market uncertainty amid falling milk prices

The Country Full Show: Wednesday, May 27, 2026
27 May
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