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Back on Whanganui fifth-generation sheep breeder Kate Kellick's hill country farm near Mangamahu, the market for breeding stock tells a different story. At her family's Tokorangi breeding ...

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It's the first time anywhere in the world that a sheep is known to have been infected. It just happens to have been in Yorkshire. But the H5N1 virus is also found quite widely in US dairy cattle.

"For the last 20 years we've hardly had any sheep at all, so this will be a first big step back into the sheep and wool industry," he said. "We plan to work with the existing team and staff on ...