Two Major NZ Dairy Deals Completed
Two major acquisitions in the New Zealand dairy sector were completed this week.
MICHAEL SPAANS has been elected as the new director on the Fonterra Board of Directors.
Spaans, aged 50, lives in Hamilton and farms at Te Aroha. He was a Shareholders' Councillor from 2000 to 2008 and is currently a director of DairyNZ and several other dairy sector companies.
Shareholders voted to re-elect incumbent directors Malcolm Bailey and Ian Farrelly, says returning officer, Warwick Lampp, of electionz.com Ltd.
Shareholders Scott Montgomery and Gerard Wolvers were elected unopposed as members of the Directors' Remuneration Committee.
In the Shareholders' Council elections Rosss Wallis was elected in Ward 8 – Hamilton and Vaughn Brophy, Ward 21 – Coastal Taranaki.
Both are new Shareholders' Councillors.
In the 11 other Shareholders' Council wards where elections were due, nominees were elected unopposed. The councillors in those wards are:
Ward 3 - Northern Wairoa Penny Smart
Ward 6 - Hauraki Julie Pirie
Ward 9 - Morrinsville Malcolm Piggott
Ward 12 - Cambridge Kevin Monks
Ward 15 - South Waikato Ian Brown
Ward 18 - Otorohanga Duncan Coull
Ward 24 - Southern Taranaki David Werder
Ward 27 - Southern Manawatu Richard Syme
Ward 30 - Northern Central Canterbury Ange Ward
Ward 32 - Southern Canterbury John Gregan
Ward 33 - Otago Ad Bekkers and Ivan Lines
All successful candidates will take office at the close of the annual meeting on Wednesday, November 27, 2013.
While the District Field Days brought with it a welcome dose of sunshine, it also attracted a significant cohort of sitting members from the Beehive – as one might expect in an election year.
Irish Minister of State of Agriculture, Noel Grealish was in New Zealand recently for an official visit.
While not all sibling rivalries come to blows, one headline event at the recent New Zealand Rural Games held in Palmerston North certainly did, when reigning World Champion Jack Jordan was denied the opportunity of defending his world title in Europe later this year, after being beaten by his big brother’s superior axle blows, at the Stihl Timbersports Nationals.
AgriZeroNZ has invested $5.1 million in Australian company Rumin8 to accelerate development of its methane-reducing products for cattle and bring them to New Zealand.
Farmers want more direct, accurate information about both fuel and fertiliser supply.
A bull on a freight plane sounds like the start of a joke, but for Ian Bryant, it is a fond memory of days gone by.
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