Business News - Farmers to be paid for meat according to yield: "Carcasses will be graded on a scale ranging from one (very low yield) to eight (super yield), and Rouse suggested that if a farmer was getting a score of more than four there would be extra payments. "

:::::::::: Pandasport.com :::::::::: "Goodbye John, your journey has ended.

You failed in a quest which began two years ago and where everything was laid at your feet.

Along the way you showed scant regard for many of the modern icons of the game. You chose to alienate the New Zealand public. Your condescending treatment of the media was appalling. Your choice of robotic automatons was doomed with there being no-one on the field to implement plan ‘B’ – if indeed there was one."

THE PRESS : LOCAL NEWS - STORY : New Zealand's leading news and information website: "Greenpark farmer Fergie McCormick had to call on the fearless tackling style that made him a great All Black fullback several decades ago, when a Dexter cow he was leading around the judging ring threw a tantrum and kicked a loudspeaker stand over."

STUFF : RURAL - STORY : New Zealand's leading news and information website: "An unusually cold spring, which has curtailed lamb growth rates, is causing headaches for the meat industry in trying to meet sales targets for the traditionally strong pre-Christmas British trade. "

Nelson Marlborough Farming - Rural News from New Zealand: "Local breeder Colin Gibbs of Lone Oak Southdown near Wakefield founded his stud in the 1946 in partnership with his father"

Hopscotch House - Stylish Children's Bedroom Furniture made in New Zealand: A link to my sister-in-laws new business selling children's bedroom furniture. Have a nosey "Hopscotch House is an exciting new range of children's bedroom furniture that is both stylish and affordable. All the furniture is made to order and is designed with safety in mind – rounded edges and metal drawer runners."