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With the dairy sector in the doldrums dairy cattle numbers are still being reduced to right size herds outweighing confidence in the beef sector where farmers have increased numbers.

Dairy Farmers are now in the second year of below breakeven farmgate milk prices and have cut the national dairy cow herd number over the last eighteen months by five percent to 4.9 million head.

New Zealand deciduous fruit exports at 351,000 metric tons for MY2015/2016 are three percent greater than the previous forecast, because of an almost perfect growing season in the main growing region.