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OPINION: Westland Milk may have won the contract to supply butter to Costco NZ but Open Country Dairy is having…
The predicted dry patch, which in November seemed impossible to envisage, has arrived.
Farm forestry and tourism are blending well with Graham Smith’s dairy business.
A Woodville, Tararua dairy farmer is halving his dairy shed power bill with a solar power system he will pay for in six years. And it has no batteries. Peter Burke reports.
Northland ‘Tiller Talk’ farmers Don and Kirsten Watson took a leap into farm ownership in 2017-18, moving to South Head (Kaipara Harbour Edge).
Fonterra's Western Star butter has been judged Australia’s champion butter for the seventh time.
Conditions are in place for the start of a new dairy price cycle, says ASB senior rural economist, Nathan Penny.
Here are excerpts from Fonterra’s submission to the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act (DIRA) review, signed by chief executive Miles Hurrell.
Fonterra has delivered a mixed result to shareholders this morning.
Farmers are expected to finalise a Biosecurity Levy of 3.9c/kgMS this week.
Did minister David Parker say it? Opposition’s Nathan Guy thinks so.
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Fonterra finds itself at the centre of a row between two Sri Lankan cabinet ministers.
While we're on the topic of a higher minimum wage, Horticulture NZ chief Mike Chapman is a clear thinker on this, cutting through the bulldust coming out of Wellington.
Fonterra has taken a stake in Motif Ingredients, a US-based food ingredients company developing plant-based or cell-grown animal products, including milk.
Employers aren't paying enough attention to retaining the employees they have for the next season.
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