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Sheep and cattle numbers drop: Weather events and low prices among ‘complex reasons’

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Sheep numbers were down 2.4% and beef cattle numbers down 2.3% in Eastern regions of the North Island for the 12 months to the end of June, according to Beef + Lamb NZ’s Stock Number Survey. 

At that date the Eastern sheep number, which includes this region, Hawke’s Bay and Wairarapa, was at an estimated 5.92 million head. 

“The reduction in flock size was driven by a myriad of c...


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