Federated Farmers of New Zealand
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New Zealand's leading rural sector organisation, Federated Farmers of New Zealand represents 17,000 member farmers and rural families throughout New Zealand. A network of 24 provinces, together with associated area networks or branches, provides a locally based, democratic organisation that gives farmers a collective voice nationally and within each province.
Federated Farmers says Fonterra’s decision to revise down it’s payout by 45 cents to $6.30 per kg of milk solids is unfortunate, but thanks the cooperative for being upfront about the situation and giving its farmers plenty of warning.
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Labour’s water policy completes a hat trick of ill conceived policy releases over the past week, highlighting a poor grasp of agricultural issues and a worrying anti-farming streak.
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Federated Farmers is concerned at the interventionist tone of much of the Labour Party’s agriculture policy released yesterday.
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Speech by President of Federated Farmers Bruce Wills to the NZIIA Major Issues Conference, Wellington 20 October 2011 I would like to thank Bryan and the members of the Institute of International Affairs for inviting Federated Farmers to speak today.
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The Labour Party’s policy to hike High Country property rents and drop the tenure review process in favour of direct acquisition is tantamount to confiscation Federated Farmers Board High Country liaison William Rolleston said today.
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The Labour Party’s policy to hike High Country property rents and drop the tenure review process in favour of direct acquisition is tantamount to confiscation Federated Farmers Board High Country liaison William Rolleston said today.
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While it’s never pleasant to see jobs disappear, Federated Farmers is buoyed by a new positive direction coming out of the merged Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry/Ministry of Fisheries.
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With about 40 percent of New Zealand dairy farms operating sharemilking contracts, Federated Farmers has released its Variable Order Sharemilking Agreement 2012.
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CANTERBURY — Federated Farmers is celebrating a much improved working relationship with Environment Canterbury, which sees 90.3 percent of the region’s dairy farms not harming the environment.
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CANTERBURY — Federated Farmers is celebrating a much improved working relationship with Environment Canterbury, which sees 90.3 percent of the region’s dairy farms not harming the environment.
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WELLINGTON — The second consecutive fall in the Food Price Index, this time by one percent, shows that the market is working to deliver fair pricing.
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To deliver an integrated dairy industry data network, Federated Farmers is encouraging DairyNZ to secure a solution that will benefit the entire dairy industry.
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WELLINGTON — Speech by Dr William Rolleston, Federated Farmers Vice-President, to the New Zealand Institute of Agricultural & Horticultural Science in Wellington on 4 October 2011.
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Speech by Dr William Rolleston, Federated Farmers Vice-President, to the New Zealand Institute of Agricultural & Horticultural Science in Wellington on 4 October 2011.
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The manager of Ribbonwood Station at Omarama has requested all media inquiries relating to the theft of 200 pregnant ewes, be directed to Federated Farmers.
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Tatua dairy co-operative has pleased its 109 shareholders with an outstanding year coming from its highest ever financial surplus and milk payout.
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The dairy cooperative, Westland Milk Products, has delivered welcome cheer to the West Coast and the wider economy, with its second highest payout off revenues of over half a billion dollars.
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Federated Farmers is questioning what value the Office of the Auditor General report, ‘Managing freshwater quality: challenges for regional councils’, will add to informed debate.
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Federated Farmers wishes new Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings the best of luck and looks forward to looks forward to building on the already strong working relationship between the cooperative and the Federation.
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A boost in agricultural exports at a traditionally quiet time of year has proved the economic worth of the country’s meat and fibre industries.
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Fonterra Cooperative Group’s full-year revenue results of just under $20 billion will financially benefit all New Zealanders.
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Information published today by Fonterra shows that changes in the price Fonterra pays farmers for their milk each season are driven by the impact of global commodity prices.
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Agriculture lies at the heart of the real green New Zealand economy that is not just helping to pay New Zealand’s way in the world today, but with research and innovation, is ideally suited to grow the economy into the future as today’s balance of payments show.
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As agricultural vehicles spend most of their time off-road but only briefly on-road, Federated Farmers is pleased the Government is to comprehensively review transport regulations relating to agricultural vehicles.
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NORTHLAND — Federated Farmers has welcomed a Sir Michael Fay led group upping its bid for the 16 former CraFarms, as being the best opportunity to keep these farms in New Zealand hands.
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Federated Farmers has welcomed a Sir Michael Fay led group upping its bid for the 16 former CraFarms, as being the best opportunity to keep these farms in New Zealand hands.
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As agricultural vehicles spend most of their time off-road but only briefly on-road, Federated Farmers is pleased the Government is to comprehensively review transport regulations relating to agricultural vehicles.
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Federated Farmers sees many of the key points it has advocated for reflected in the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) review panel’s report.
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Federated Farmers has told the Commerce Select Committee Inquiry into milk prices, that an inquiry is premature given the work being undertaken by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), Ministry of Economic Development and The Treasury.
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The Irrigation Acceleration Fund will help transform and future proof New Zealand agriculture on the same day another fund, the ‘Fresh Start for Fresh Water Clean Up Fund’, will help communities remedy the legacy of the past.
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Federated Farmers believes NZBio winning the right to host the 2012 Agricultural Biotechnology International Conference to be the biotechnology equivalent of the Rugby World Cup (RWC).
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In an opinion editorial published on Idealog, Federated Farmers Dairy chairperson, Willy Leferink, has asked how long Fonterra would remain a New Zealand company if it was listed.
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Federated Farmers has backed the strongly worded communiqué issued from the Cairns Group Farm Leaders meeting in Saskatoon, Canada.
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A while ago when I was in a Koru Club lounge I was stopped in my tracks by a sight that really struck me.
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With an estimated 80,000 visitors entering New Zealand for Rugby World Cup 2011, New Zealanders are being asked to become a ‘First XV’ of biosecurity.
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With an estimated 80,000 visitors entering New Zealand for Rugby World Cup 2011, New Zealanders are being asked to become a ‘First XV’ of biosecurity.
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WELLINGTON — While Federated Farmers position on the mandatory National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) scheme is well known, the Federation must support members by ensuring they get the briefings, instruction and detail on how to be NAIT compliant by 1 July, 2012.
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While Federated Farmers position on the mandatory National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) scheme is well known, the Federation must support members by ensuring they get the briefings, instruction and detail on how to be NAIT compliant by 1 July, 2012.
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Fonterra Cooperative Group’s confirmation its current season forecast will be held, is of relief to Fonterra’s dairy farmers.
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Federated Farmers is endorsing the New Zealand energy strategy for its realism.
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WELLINGTON — In the space of three seasons, dairy farmers in the Greater Wellington region have massively lifted their performance in terms of dairy compliance.
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In the space of three seasons, dairy farmers in the Greater Wellington region have massively lifted their performance in terms of dairy compliance.
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The $11.6 million rehabilitation of Te Waihora (Lake Ellesmere) provides a positive template for the cooperative involvement of Government, Iwi, industry, councils and farmers.
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With Fonterra downsizing its organic operation, Federated Farmers is to ask the cooperative for greater transparency while working for affected members and farmers.
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Federated Farmers is applauding the Minister of Finance, the Hon Bill English, for highlighting primary exports as one key to future prosperity.
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Federated Farmers welcomes Communications Minister Steven Joyce’s release of two tender documents for the final Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI) contracts.
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Federated Farmers will represent dairy farmers at any milk pricing inquiry, but with a separate interdepartmental review of Raw Milk regulations underway by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), Treasury and the Ministry of Economic Development (MED), the Federation feels a new inquiry is premature and confusing.
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Bruce Wills is Federated Farmers President Why is milk more expensive than a bottle of cola? Chris Farrelly of Northland's Manaia Health asked what many people have been thinking.
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Federated Farmers is interested to find out more about Massey University research around growing up on livestock farms and a possible association with increased blood cancer risks.
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TARANAKI — Federated Farmers is applauding cooperatively owned RD1 acquiring the assets of Allied Farmers Rural Merchandise, guaranteeing no loss of rural servicing in Taranaki.
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TARANAKI — Federated Farmers is applauding cooperatively owned RD1 acquiring the assets of Allied Farmers Rural Merchandise, guaranteeing no loss of rural servicing in Taranaki.
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This morning’s release of a four-month analysis by the Commerce Commission into milk pricing should dispel any notion the New Zealand consumer is being exploited.
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CANTERBURY — Negotiations by the Hon Tim Groser, has delivered a great opportunity for the beef industry to export grain-fed beef into the European Union (EU).
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Negotiations by the Hon Tim Groser, has delivered a great opportunity for the beef industry to export grain-fed beef into the European Union (EU).
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Speech by Federated Farmers board member and Grain & Seed chairperson Ian MacKenzie at the Rural Contractors New Zealand's Conference, delivered on Tuesday 26 July in Ashburton.
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While the agricultural sector and related manufacturing has led New Zealand’s export efforts in the year to June, the strength of the New Zealand dollar is starting to concern farmers.
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Following contact with provinces south of Taupo in both islands, Federated Farmers has found that both stock and farmers have come through this wintry blast well.
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Farmers are more confident now than they were in January, according to the latest Federated Farmers Farm Confidence Survey, taken at the beginning of the 2011/12 season.
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WELLINGTON — Speech by Bruce Wills, Federated Farmers President, to the 2nd Annual Agricultural and Horticultural Outlook Summit, Amora Hotel Wellington, 21 July 2011 I would like to thank the organisers for allowing me to speak on water allocation, irrigation and storage to you today.
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Federated Farmers is concerned the highest inflation levels for 21 years will add upside pressure on the New Zealand dollar.
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At a time when New Zealand really needs to grow its economy and exports to collectively pay back debt and improve our living standards, the prospect of more asset taxes on top of taxing biological emissions from agriculture, is a step in the wrong direction.
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At a time when New Zealand really needs to grow its economy and exports to collectively pay back debt and improve our living standards, the prospect of more asset taxes on top of taxing biological emissions from agriculture, is a step in the wrong direction.
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Federated Farmers is applauding Fonterra Cooperative Group appointing 46 year-old Theo Spierings, as Chief Executive Officer designate.
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WAIKATO — The release of the 2010-11 Waikato Regional Council statistics showing a huge improvement in effluent compliance reflects the investment dairy farmers are making to meet their environmental responsibilities.
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Attitude matters Recently Social Development Minister Paula Bennett issued a challenge to New Zealanders on how we could get our terrible child abuse statistics down.
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Final speech by Don Nicolson, as Federated Farmers President, on 1 July 2011 at Federated Farmers 2011 Annual General Meeting in Rotorua.
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Greater unity in the entire agricultural sector is in the offing, with Fonterra Cooperative Group and Silver Fern Farms partnership to aggregate sea and land freight services under the Kotahi umbrella.
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President Bruce Wills was elected as the 28th President of Federated Farmers this morning.
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Andrew Ferrier, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Fonterra Cooperative Group has become Federated Farmers Agribusiness Person of the Year for 2011.
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Penultimate speech by Don Nicolson as Federated Farmers President on day two of Federated Farmers 2011 Annual General Meeting at the Distinction Rotorua.
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ROTORUA — Penultimate speech by Don Nicolson as Federated Farmers President on day two of Federated Farmers 2011 Annual General Meeting at the Distinction Rotorua.
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Final speech by Bruce Wills as Federated Farmers Meat & Fibre Chairperson at Federated Farmers Meat & Fibre Annual General Meeting at the Distinction Rotorua.
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Final speech by Lachlan McKenzie as Federated Farmers Dairy Chairperson at Federated Farmers Dairy’s Annual General Meeting at the Distinction Rotorua.
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TARANAKI — Federated Farmers is concerned by reports from the Taranaki region that farmers are being pressured into buying health and safety policies.
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CHRISTCHURCH — In seven days 2340 farmers, students and Christchurch residents, with the help of the New Zealand Army, collectively cleared an estimated 100,000 cubic metres of silt from Christchurch's battered suburbs.
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HASTINGS — Federated Farmers congratulates Southland farmers Grant and Bernadette Weller, the first ever winners of the National Ballance Farm Environment Awards.
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How agriculture is exporting New Zealand to the future, is evident in Statistics New Zealand’s latest Overseas Merchandise Trade figures for the year to May 2011.
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Federated Farmers is backing Merino Grower Investments Limited, committing $7.625 million to purchase PGG Wrightson's half-share in New Zealand Merino.
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CHRISTCHURCH — With over 300 farmers, university students, school students and the army working in Christchurch today, both the Farmy Army and Student Volunteer Army (SVA) are aiming for a big push on Thursday and Friday.
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Federated Farmers has settled on an impressive shortlist for the 2011 Agribusiness Person of the Year Award.
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Farmers have jumped two places to be New Zealand’s fourteenth most trusted profession in Readers Digest New Zealand's Most Trusted Professions 2011.
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CHRISTCHURCH — The mammoth task of removing Christchurch’s liquefaction continues today and will continue each day up to and including Friday.
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CHRISTCHURCH — With the Farmy Army, Student Volunteer Army and Christchurch City Council combining from tomorrow to remove silt following the latest earthquake, residents are being advised how to make contact to request assistance.
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An Occupational Health and Safety Manual has been launched by Federated Farmers to improve agricultural health and safety and could help save agriculture and the wider agricultural community, millions of dollars each year in direct and indirect costs.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Federated Farmers’ Adverse Events Trust (AET) is to donate $285,000 to nine charities and groups in Christchurch.
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Federated Farmers is welcoming two developments marking agriculture’s economic sunrise.
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Federated Farmers is welcoming the continued hold of the OCR at 2.5 percent, though a more upbeat outlook means that farmers should plan for tightening as early as the fourth quarter with new bank lending requirements likely to increase the cost of borrowing before then.
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Farmers and hunters should celebrate 9 June as Canada Geese freedom day, with the bird now a pest.
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Federated Farmers is counselling the Government against forcing Government Industry Agreements (GIA) on the export agricultural sector.
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Conservation organisation Forest & Bird and Federated Farmers today praised the report by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (PCE) on the use of 1080.
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Since 2000, Varroa has seen the loss of at least 200,000 bee colonies.
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Following World Environment Day, Federated Farmers is to ask the Government to put protected areas on private land, such as QEII National Trust type covenants and Significant Natural Areas, on the same footing as the Department of Conservation (DoC) for council rating purposes.
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Honey bees, so vital to every New Zealander, are just 500 grams away from a disaster warns Federated Farmers.
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With no alternative to nature’s 100% Pure pollinator, Federated Farmers is highlighting that everyone can make a difference as to whether bees are ‘fat or skinny’, by planting trees for healthy bees.
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As part of Bee Week 2011, Federated Farmers is highlighting the pollination activities of honey bees.
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Having called for implementation of the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) scheme to be delayed or abandoned, Federated Farmers is welcoming the decision by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) to delay the scheme from its planned 1 November start.
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CHRISTCHURCH — Federated Farmers’ Adverse Events Trust, a registered charity (no.
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SOUTHLAND — Following Federated Farmers Southland Annual General Meeting yesterday, 23 May, the Province elected a new provincial president to replace Rod Pemberton, who is now farming in Central Otago.
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Federated Farmers has welcomed Fonterra Cooperative Group locking in $7.50 per kilogram of milk solids (kg/MS) as its forecast milk price for the 2010/11 season.
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