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Companies in the Waikato Innovation Park, most of them farming-related, are reporting healthy financial growth, the park operator says.
The heat was certainly on the last round of Fonterra farmer meetings, as almost 2000 farmers turned up to hear the co-op explain its dismal half-year results.
The World Health Organisation recently declared that glyphosate was “probably carcinogenic”, causing a bit of a fuss given the ubiquity of Round Up and its clones.
Incredibly popular Lewis Road Creamery chocolate milk will be available in the South Island this winter.
Environmental lobbyists will go to any length to push for fewer cows in New Zealand.
Fonterra has wisely decided to stall the expensive rebrand of RD1 to Farm Source.
The Netherlands is the second largest exporter of food in the world – exporting AS$70 billion each year from a landmass of 42 square kilometres and a population of 17 million people.
After an encouraging rise, then fall, in dairy product prices in the first quarter of this year, milk producers and manufacturers are again looking for the upside as planning for next season is either well underway or done for most.
The latest outlook for dairy farming and a selection of ‘Hot Science’ topics will feature at the DairyNZ’s regional farmer forums which kick off in April.
Nineteen dairy farm employers face ‘enforcement action’ for 71 breaches of employment law discovered during a three month investigation by MBIE.
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Shanghai Pengxin's subsidiary Milk New Zealand Holdings won two prizes at the recent BNZ New Zealand Chinese Business Awards.
Queensland farmers are deriding as “smoke and mirrors” the claims made by supermarket chain Woolworths.
February's production data released by DCANZ last week shows Fonterra’s drought impact warning was over-the-top and explains why markets have corrected so sharply, say analysts.
Analysts do not believe there will be a rapid production response to the abolition of milk quota in Europe.
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