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	<title>Rural Real Estate Listings in Hawkes Bay</title>
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	<description>Jock Hewitt Rural Blog</description>
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		<title>Bank Farm Budget Prices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past couple of weeks I have been catching up with a number of rural bankers, they all are telling me they are keen to do business. While I assume you could “throw a blanket” over them in terms of what they offer in interest rates, I have noticed a variation in the budget [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year, Summer Rains!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While the weather was mixed over the festive period I trust you were able to spend some quality time with family and friends. While it is a relaxing time for most the real-estate wheels continue to turn and this year has been no exception. I spent some time showing a Singapore based Expat Brit and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hawkes-bay.co.nz/blog/happy-new-year-summer-rains/</link>
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		<title>Spring Growth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The rain seems to continue to fall at the right times and some of my clients are telling me it’s one of the best springs for some time. All good, as store prices for lambs at the yards continue to exceed vendors expectations meaning our breeding and finishing farmers are in for another good year. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank&#8217;s budget prices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It would be hard not to firstly acknowledge the Rugby World Cup and the impact it has had so far. Full credit to Martin Snedden and his team , they are doing New Zealand proud. There have been some very close games and the so called minnows of world rugby have really stepped up to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hawkes-bay.co.nz/blog/banks-budget-prices/</link>
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		<title>Weather and new season lambs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are now on the home straight of 2011 and what a year it has been with major earthquakes, sovereign debt crisis in Europe, oil spillages and a long overdue Rugby World Cup Victory by our All Blacks and we still have an election to go! Apart from the uncertainty from the Greek debt crisis [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hawkes-bay.co.nz/blog/weather-and-new-season-lambs/</link>
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		<title>Permanent Forests in New Zealand for Carbon, Timber and Recreation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In New Zealand the Permanent Forest Sink Initiative (PFSI) enables forest investors to establish and create permanent or semi-permanent mixed aged forests with the objective of a substantial long term diversified income from the graduated harvest of logs, together with the sale of carbon credits in the form of internationally recognised Assigned Amount Units (AAU's). It is suggested that some suitably located PFSI forests would be ideally suited as private hunting preserves for deer. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hawkes-bay.co.nz/blog/permanent-forests-in-new-zealand-for-carbon-timber-and-recreation/</link>
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		<title>Carbon Forestry: A New Concept for New Zealand Forestry Investment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past New Zealand forest investors have established forests which have involved substantial capital and operating expenditure from aquisition of the land through to harvesting in 25 to 30 years time. By joining the Emmissions Trading Scheme (ETS) investors are able to earn and sell carbon credits (in the form of NZU's) for carbon naturally sequested by the new forest 
creating a positive cash flow as early as the forth year following thinning operations.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hawkes-bay.co.nz/blog/carbon-forestry-a-new-concept-for-new-zealand-forestry-investment/</link>
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		<title>Purchase of rural land in New Zealand by non-residents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New Zealand government has a regulatory regime in place to control the sale of rural land to other than New Zealand citizens or to individuals who have not been granted new Zealand residency. These regulations mostly affect land over 5 hectares in size.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hawkes-bay.co.nz/blog/purchase-of-rural-land-in-new-zealand-by-non-residents/</link>
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		<title>Lifestyle Land Values</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hawkes Bay has become a preferred lifestyle destination, not only for overseas migrants but also significant numbers of affluent New Zealanders moving from major urban centres, all keen to enjoy the Bay’s superior Mediterranean climate, quality schools, educational opportunities, rural environment and a relaxed rural lifestyle. Rural land and property values appreciated considerably between 2004 and early 2008 but have eased significantly with the recession from late 2008 to the present time.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hawkes-bay.co.nz/blog/lifestyle-land-values/</link>
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		<title>An introduction to Pastoral Farming in Hawke&#8217;s Bay, New Zealand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A brief background and history of pastoral farming in Hawke's Bay together notes on the present deregulated pastoral economy and current productivity trends.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hawkes-bay.co.nz/blog/an-introduction-to-pastoral-farming-in-hawkes-bay-new-zealand/</link>
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