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The Government of New Zealand has passed legislation that will restrict a wide range of plastic products to be sold in New Zealand, including non-compostable produce stickers.

With the start of 2023, New Zealand has begun to experience a nation-wide egg shortage, which follows price rises for eggs during the last year. Contributing factors for the price increase and supply shortfall are labor shortages in laying operations...

New Zealand is by far the largest exporter of deer meat and products in the world. The first commercial deer farm in New Zealand was established in the early 1970s and since then, the industry has grown into an on-average NZ$280 million (US$175 million) per year export earner for the country’s agricultural sector.

New Zealand is the second largest exporter of lamb meat in the world, only slightly below Australia, and also one of the top exporters of wool. Today the national sheep herd is far less than half of its peak of approximately over 70 million in the 1980s, having declined to only 26 million today. Despite the national flock continuing to decline, during the last decade meat production and exports have remained stable.

A biennial bearing “off” year in MY2013 means the forecast production for apples of 511,000 metric tons should give rise to 305,000 metric tons of export apples. This won’t match MY 2012’s stellar performance of 320,000 metric tons of apples exported...

This report provides EU-28 production, supply, and demand forecasts for fresh apples, fresh pears, table grapes and concentrated apple juice.

A synopsis of current news and events affecting the agricultural sectors in Australia and New Zealand.

After the 2013 drought, New Zealand's milk production is expected to rebound to near-record levels in 2014.