Takeover bid?
OPINION: Canterbury milk processor Synlait is showing no sign of bouncing back from its financial doldrums.
The wait is over for South Island: the chocolate drink that has taken the North Island by storm will soon arrive.
Lewis Road Creamery says it will be in South Island stores from September 2, the same day as it launches two new milk flavours nationwide.
Launched in the North Island last year, the milk drink is a runaway success, riding on a blend of Lewis Road’s whole milk and Whittaker’s five-roll refined Creamy Milk chocolate.
Trade Minister Todd McClay says New Zealand has no intention of backing down in a trade dispute with Canada over dairy products.
There have been leadership changes at the Hamilton-based Dairy Goat Co-operative, which has been struggling financially in recent years.
Horticulture NZ chief executive Nadine Tunley will step down in August.
OPINION: In recent years farmers have been crying foul of unworkable and expensive regulations.
Another 16 commercial beef farmers have been selected to take part in the Informing New Zealand Beef (INZB) programme designed to help drive the uptake of genetics in the industry.
Trade Minister Todd McClay says Kiwi exporters will be $100 million better off today as the NZ-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) comes into force.