Buttery prize
OPINION: Westland Milk may have won the contract to supply butter to Costco NZ but Open Country Dairy is having…
Helping dairy women understand the ins and outs of purchasing stock is the focus of a series of practical workshops being held across the North and South Islands in February and March.
Robyn Pearce, the much sought after 'queen of time management ', will speak at the Dairy Women's Network annual conference in Nelson on March 20-21.
New regulations to support compliance with the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) scheme and protect the privacy of NAIT stakeholders came into effect yesterday (January 10).
The 2013 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards will be the biggest and best yet, with a record 566 entries received, up from the previous best of 525.
UNLIKE MANY 18-year-olds, Shawn Sands is a future farmer with a fair idea of where he's going and how he's getting there.
Federated Farmers has welcomed the 89.51% vote in favour of constitutional safeguards around Trading Among Farmers (TAF).
FONTERRA IS still looking for Government and other support for its national Milk for Schools programme.
THE GLOBAL economic crisis is expected to knock $1.7 billion off the value of New Zealand's primary exports this season.
Outgoing Fonterra chairman Henry van der Heyden said he knew when Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings joined Fonterra just over a year ago he would hit the ground running.
Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings says since the co-op's formation in 2001, the board and farmer shareholders had made the tough decisions required to position it for growth.
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The decisions made by farmer shareholders over the past decade have laid a strong, durable foundation for Fonterra's future growth and profitability, says the co-op's outgoing chairman Henry van der Heyden.
THE NOW-DEFUNCT 'clean streams accord' is to be replaced by a new one called the 'sustainable dairying water accord', promoted by the Dairy Companies Association of NZ (DCANZ), DairyNZ, Federated Farmers and others.
It has been another big and busy year for the agribusiness sector. Since this is the last newspaper for the 2012, Rural News' editorial team has done a quick review of the year and come up with its high and lowlights...
HORIZONS ONE Plan is the biggest potential constraint to the development of agriculture in Manawatu, according to a wide-ranging economic report on the subject.
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