Cow disease found in dairy herd for first time in New Zealand

it took them a whole 6 days to get results of the test....thank goodness i drink milk from new zealand as i am in Singapore.

You are fine, Singapore milk is likely dehydrated and watered down again after shipping it over. it's well and truly dead.

Not good mate! They need to do something really fast, this kind of disease spreads quickly. NZD should be a bit more affected soon. Just started.

Nice flock of cows

Not many stories will move the market until the Fed rate goes nowhere....or somewhere...at the end of week...
NZ's entire flock of Moa could mysteriously disappear and there would be no change to the NZD.

Short nzd😀😀😀

time to sell cows

I don't think this will bring any change on the nzd considering Chris Lewis assurance that the whole situation neither has impact on human health nor milk products (may be for now I guess).

Thou I suspect it may prove to be a "challenge" to the dairy industry considering it is difficult to diagnose and its effects on cows besides, being a highly contagious cattle disease.

Anyway, I look forward to what FED will put on the table this week and maybe of more interest to me is the New Zealand elections scheduled for September, 23.

If you want to stay healthy in general, don't drink too much milk, it fucks up your body

NZ dairy industry will be pissed,last thing any country that exports food needs.Always thought the road kill possum an rabbits that breed like flies.Should be farmed an exported for the pet food market.Skins an fur,hair are good also.Yes main concern would be elections,National managed the country through the rough times,steady as it goes.Hopefully they can get another term,as investors need to fund this building boom.

Cow's milk is designed to turn an 85 lb. calf into a 1500 pound animal in two years. If that's what you want, then by all means drink cow's milk. Modern dairy cows are milked through their third trimester. Imagine the hormones from that.

Cattle give off most of the methane leaked into our atmosphere. Methane is 23 times MORE of a greenhouse gas than CO2. But you won't hear that from politicians. And HELL YES there is global warming. Temperature sensitive corral ejects the phytoplankton from their symbiotic relationship when sea temps rise 2 degrees Centigrade above mean. When that happens, coral turns white and dies of starvation a few weeks later. 29% of the Great Barrier reef DIED in 2016. Coral reefs, the great nursery of the world's oceans, are in grave danger. Humans need to switch to a vegetable based diet immediately or get used to antibiotic laden farmed fish, cattle, eggs, dairy and poultry. What do you think happens to the healthy symbiotic bacteria in the human gut when it gets hit with latent doses of antibiotics from almost all of their meat sources?

So do I give a damn about the NZ dairy industry? Not any more so than I care about toxic cigarette peddlers.

Nice argument,
Are you vegetarian? Can you show me to the bacon flavoured vegeburgers?

Cows, Pigs, Chickens, Ducks, all meats are full of hormones. This is a fact. I don't care! I just like to barbecue it all using charcoal to get that crispy skin! Hmmm so yummy... Hahahahaha

Is NZDUSD going to 0.736x?

Vegetarian? No. They dislike all animal products except dairy. I think dairy is toxic with hormones and antibiotics. Vegetarians say honey is out, which is crazy. Without funding for beekeepers, where do they think crops come from? Honey is terrific. The pollen in honey helps us to get over allergies. Vegetarians are against leather products. I couldn't care less. I'm sitting on my favorite leather couch right now.

If you want to talk about an ocean devoid of fish, Brazil devoid of trees, high land prices, and sickly fat humans, then we should continue talking about how cattle, pigs, and chickens are so necessary in our diet.

Well you certainly have all the answers

I wonder if i can buy a tofu couch...

still winter for nz so cow eat indoor, still not cross infect to other farms in large scale yet,
but spring will ...... ?!

Close Enough!
http://www.news.com.au/finance/small-business/vegetarian-bacon-seasoning-creator-kjetil-hansen-scores-300000-deal-on-shark-tank/news-story/23a00a78a467136000b5ed4b553773a0