OPINION: DairyNZ's director elections has seen scientist Jacqueline Rowarth re-elected for another three-year term.

OPINION: Fonterra's chair will be paid nearly $500,000 if shareholders approve a proposal by the directors' remuneration committee.

Always be on the lookout for new job opportunities and get outside your comfort zone.

In a landmark move, the state-owned farmer Pāmu (Landcorp) is making four of its 44 dairy farms available for people wishing to take up various contracts including herd-owning, share milking, variable order share milking and contract milking.

Milk vat manufacturer DTS is selling its dairy automation business to MilktechNZ.

Former Synlait chief executive Grant Watson says the past two years have been quite the journey.

Retiring chair Jim van der Poel has used his final AGM to announce the intention to increase the DairyNZ farmer levy for the first time in the industry-good body's 17-year history.

Not too many dairy industry leaders were keen to publicly comment on the sudden passing of former Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings.

Doing what is right, not what is easy, has been the hallmark of Jim van der Poel's leadership of, and advocacy for, the dairy industry, attendees at the DairyNZ annual general meeting heard last week.

Former Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings passed away in the Netherlands over the weekend.

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