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Snow falling around the country is making for some soggy conditions for farmers in the thick of lambing.

A resurgence of Covid-19 within China is causing headaches for some primary sector exporters, with lockdown measures disrupting economic activity and slowing down distribution networks.

Farmers are facing delays in getting stock to the works as the brakes well and truly come off the cattle kill - with some facing wait times of up to three weeks.

Possums caught in auto traps (file image). Photo: Waikato RIvercare Ben Stubbs farms 650 hectares in the Waitomo area and said self-setting auto-kill possum traps on his QEII native block had nailed more than 800 possums this year. It was a sad state of affairs to find the wool returns from his 2000 sheep could not compete with the fur from those possums, he said. "We sold the first lot just recently and made $4000 which equated to more than my wool cheque. "It makes you look differently at a ...