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OPINION: Westland Milk may have won the contract to supply butter to Costco NZ but Open Country Dairy is having…
OPINION: It's election season and Greenpeace is banging the old drum again – ‘kill the dairy industry’.
OPINION: Ten out of ten points for Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor for his confidence of winning the upcoming general election.
OPINION: The election run-up is on and things are getting nasty.
Animal and Plant Plant Health New Zealand has appointed Dr Liz Shackleton as its new chief executive.
Fertiliser co-operative Ravensdown says farmers bought 27% fewer products last financial year as prices soared.
New Zealand Rural Land Co (NZL), which leases out highly productive farms, made a net profit after tax of $2.5m last financial year.
The sudden death of champion cheesemaker Adrian Walcroft has sent shockwaves through the specialty cheese making industry.
Thirteen dairy farmers have put their names forward for two DairyNZ board positions.
DairyNZ has revised its breakeven milk price, as one way to help farmers navigate the challenging economic conditions they face this season.
Farmers must wait until the next season to see a lift in farm profit margins, says Westpac senior agricultural economist Nathan Penny.
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Finalists have been named for the 2023 Cooperative Business NZ Annual Awards.
Recent data from the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) shows a 22.5% drop in the amount of farm sales for the three months ended July 2023 than for the same period in 2022.
The Olsen family have been involved in diversification for generations in the farming settlement of Opiki in the Horowhenua between Levin and Palmerston North. They have always had a dairy farm and grown potatoes.
A Fonterra shareholder says the co-operative's capital structure experiment has gone wrong.
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