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  • Coverage gap quadrant — scores the selected period against the 12 weeks before it (not including it).
  • Anomaly cards — only show alerts the detector fired during the selected period. Quiet weeks legitimately show none.
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  • Co-occurrence graph — recent-activity anchored, not picker-driven.
  • Source & topic profiles — all-time data for the topic; the picker doesn’t affect them.
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Topic

Herd Health And Longevity

2 items · 2 aliases · peaked week of 17 May 2026 · first seen 16 May 2026

A Putaruru dairy farmer has increased milk yields and improved herd health by selectively breeding Ayrshire cows with specific genetic traits.

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. 1 article 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 1 article
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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.

  • 14 after 12. Yeah, I'm with you there, David. But anyhow, it'll be maybe there's a bit of merit. You tell me what you think on that text line 5009 and Winston's plan. I I think the BNZ's just flying a kite, to be perfectly honest. It's not for sale. Um I don't know he can just go out there and acquire it by government action. But maybe there's a bit of merit, I don't know, and his thousand dollar kick start for the Kiwi Saver. Encourage families if they get a thousand dollar kick start um to to maybe tip in a wee bit and let the compounding effect take over. Uh, because I'd imagine uh if you're uh born today, uh you uh not going to be reliant on National Super as a universal benefit when you get to 65 or 67 or 70. Uh rural news and sports news at the bottom of the hour. If you're wondering what happened in the Gulf, mm-hmm disappointed in this one. I had a couple of horses in there, Rory and Cam Young. No, England's Aaron Rye has won the PGA championship by three strokes. Convincing in the end. Uh John Rahman Alex Smalley were second equal tell you about that. Uh and why the Warriors, one of the Warriors' best players, uh, can't make the New South Wales squad for the opening state of origin league match. Uh, up next, though, meat lamb broken through the $12 a kilogram barrier. We're gonna have a look at that. And I might even have a Wii Yarn, see what he thought about last night's country calendar. Talked about an iconic New Zealander coming up a bit later in the show to talk about the Century Farm and Station Awards. Well, Alan Mickey McDonald's a bit of an iconic uh New Zealander, one of the sharing greats. Good to see him on Country Calendar last night.
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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

linked to long-term land-based sustainability

The Country Full Show: Monday, May 18, 2026
18 May
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