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This year's DairyNZ director elections has attracted 10 candidates, the most in recent years.
The past year has tested many assumptions made about the world dairy market, most importantly that there was a once-bottomless market being driven by the urbanisation miracle occurring in China.
LIC and CRV may be rivals in New Zealand but they are working together in Australia.
Fonterra has started supplying fresh milk to Australian supermarket chain Woolworths from its new multi-million plant in Cobden, western Victoria.
Danone Nutricia says it would have to consider leaving New Zealand in favour of countries with more suitable raw milk markets if dairy regulations are removed.
Digital innovation start-up company Job Done has won a deal with Fonterra to develop an app to save farmers time and money.
Entrepreneur Diane Foreman, known to many as the ice cream lady, has fired a broadside at Fonterra saying “it needs a kick up the backside”.
With farmers under pressure, Fonterra is offering discounts and special payment terms through its Farm Source and RD1 stores.
The latest GlobalDairyTrade results showed another move in the right direction and cause for cautious optimism, but “not time to pop the champagne yet”.
The low payout is not holding back flood-ravaged farmers in parts of Taranaki from replanting riparian areas or fencing waterways.
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A Northland teenager says being part of a TeenAg club at high school kept him in school longer than he had intended, and opened him up to new possibilities in the primary industries.
Banks are providing much needed support to New Zealand’s dairy industry during this period of desperately low prices, say Federated Farmers.
The 7,500 bales of North Island wools on offer this week saw a 97% clearance and a generally dearer market, reports NZWSI marketing executive, Malcolm Ching.
One response to tight economic circumstances for many dairy farmers is to look at reducing the amount of feed they buy in for their cows, says fertiliser co-op Ravensdown.
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