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Entries have opened in the 2013 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards.
The chair of LIC's Shareholder Council, Jenny Morrison, is urging shareholders to have a say on the future home of what's commonly known as 'the core database'.
Demand from Korea for imported beef has been lacklustre this year, largely due to slowing consumer beef demand from a weak economy and increasing supplies of domestic beef.
Dairy Women's Network kicked off its online training programme today (October 31) with a webinar on Retaining the Right People.
Aussie lamb slaughter this year has been running constantly higher than last year. From Jan to Aug, lamb slaughter has hit close to 13m head according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 12% higher than the same period last year or an extra 1.4m lambs.
More than 100 contractors and designers of farm dairy effluent (FDE) ponds are the first to complete a training course aligned with new industry standards.
Farmers and other investors will have to fork out $4.60 - $5.50 per unit in the Fonterra Shareholders Fund.
Fonterra has released details of TAF (trading among farmers) which will allow outsiders to invest in the co-op for the first time.
Eleven candidates will contest three Fonterra board seats this year.
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The Commerce Commission is calling for submissions to the draft report it has released on its first statutory review of Fonterra's milk price manual.
Nominations will soon open for the 2013 Dairy Woman of the Year award which includes the chance to attend the year-long Women in Leadership course run by Global Women.
The Dairy Women's Network membership is up 30% in the last year, growing by 700 members from 2400 to 3100 at the end of June this year.
Meat processors have enough cattle to kill for the capacity that is on and prices have been steady to slightly weaker as a result.
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