JAPANESE FARMERS, sceptical about a free trade deal, are banking on the Government to exclude the sector from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).
FONTERRA DIRECTOR John Monaghan, who has made himself available for a director’s position with meat cooperative Alliance, isn’t ruling out staying on with both cooperatives should Alliance’s board appoint him.
ARE OUR primary industries and hence entire economy heading for a fall due to lack of science funding and capability? Quite possibly, judging by papers presented on the first day of last week’s New Zealand Grassland Association conference in Tauranga.
BEGA CHEESE has been given the green light by the competition watchdog to take over Warrnambool Cheese and Butter, but Canadian processor Saputo and Murray Goulburn are still waiting for approval.
DAIRYNZ IS set to almost double the amount of money it spends on helping farmers deal with new environmental laws from central government and regional councils.
TARANAKI IS now a billion dollar milk producer, thanks mostly to small, well-managed farms, says DairyNZ chairman John Luxton.
FARMERS WERE initially wary of the Milk for Schools scheme because they thought it was charity, Fonterra’s chief executive Theo Spierings told Dairy News.
DAIRY ENTREPRENEUR Peter Cullinane, principal of Lewis Road Creamery, Mangatawhiri, believes Jersey is to milk what Angus is to beef.
MORE FREQUENT droughts will put farming communities including dairy under more pressure over water, says the Waikato Regional Council’s investigations manager Patrick Lynch.
LABOUR SPOKESMAN on Primary Industries Damien O’Connor says Fonterra has been caught short in its crisis management during the botulism scare.
GETTING DAMAGED irrigators back up and running is the big concern on many dairy farms in the wake of the September 10-11 windstorm.
THE WORST wind storm for decades left Canterbury dairy farmers last week picking up damaged irrigators, fences and shelter belts.
TAKING EARLY silage this spring may help avoid a costly long-term loss of pasture quality, say rural professionals, as pasture covers nationwide reach unseasonably high levels.
THE ENTREPRENEURIAL spirit of its researchers and their closeness to customers – in particular dairy farmers – is why Bayer is keen on doing R&D in New Zealand. The “can-do” attitude is one of the reasons the German global animal health giant spends $10 million in R&D in New Zealand,…
THE WORLD’S largest milk powder drier, at Fonterra’s Darfield site in Canterbury, started production last month.
BAY OF Plenty Regional Council has omitted important facts and made misleading statements in a recent media release on the quality of the water in Lake Rotorua, says Federated Farmers policy advisor Gwyn Morgan.
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