Co-op eyes Japanese market
Japanese consumers pay a premium for food that contains ingredients that support health.
Forget the little old lady who lived in a shoe; there’s a Japanese family who live in a milk carton.
Mirasaka is a quiet, nondescript country town surrounded by fields and consisting largely of low-rise houses, located a 90-minute car ride from Hiroshima station. One landmark makes the town stand out, even appearing on national television to gasps of surprise and applause. It’s a milk-carton-shaped and colored building resembling the ‘Mainichi Gyunyu’ (‘Daily Milk’) brand container; the red-white-and-blue building stands tall above nearby houses. It’s a milk store and home for a family who also deliver the dairy product in the neighborhood. It’s been 30 years.
Third-year student Cady Burns has won the Waikato Regional Council Prize in Water Science for 2024.
The Rural Change programme, providing free private mental health professional sessions to the rural industry, is set to continue its next chapter within Rural Support Trust from 1 July 2024.
Beef + Lamb New Zealand chief executive Sam McIvor will step down in July.
A new report shows farm employers across the dairy, sheep and beef, and arable sectors have continued to invest strongly in one of their greatest assets – their staff.
The country’s 4200 commercial fruit and vegetable growers will vote from May 14 on a new HortNZ levy.