Buttery prize
OPINION: Westland Milk may have won the contract to supply butter to Costco NZ but Open Country Dairy is having…
My wife and I recently travelled to England to attend a family wedding in rural Kent.
Organisers of the 2023 Ballance Farm Environment Awards are hoping for a record number of entries.
New Zealand's wider agriculture sector is full of smart, diverse leaders who, with more formal governance training, can go toe-to-toe with the independent directors of the country's major agri businesses.
OPINION: Environmental and economic performance and sustainability of our agriculture, including forestry, can be greatly influenced by soil quality.
OPINION: When it comes to own goals, this latest gaffe by the Government tops the list.
OPINION: Vegan activists in the UK who recently held sit-ins in supermarket dairy sections across the country have been copping it from consumers.
OPINION: Producers of 'fake milk' now want a slice of the action at the World Coffee Championships (WCC).
OPINION: Animal rights group SAFE has launched a new campaign attacking what it calls agriculture's dirty secret, the production of foetal bovine serum (FBS).
OPINION: The Government can crow about its 'major effort' to upgrade capacity on congested rural broadband networks but the reality on the ground is different.
One of Australia's last remaining dairy co-operatives has closed its ice cream factory and sent staff home eight months after devastating floods ripped through its operations.
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Dairy farmers and sector leaders tested their mettle against MPs and parliamentary staff in a light-hearted yet highly competitive rugby and netball match last month.
Canterbury based milk processor is back in the black.
Following a 10-month trial on its Te Rapa Smart Farm, Fonterra has given a big tick to a new organic, low-cost, safe, sustainable and long-life battery that could deliver greater energy security and distributed electricity generation for New Zealand.
Fonterra's outgoing chief financial officer Marc Rivers believes the co-operative is starting a new and exciting chapter.
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