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OUTGOING FONTERRA chairman Henry van der Heyden will be using the next five months as a director to help execute the co-op's strategy refresh.
The number of dairy cattle in New Zealand continues to surge, and is up by more than a million since 2007, Statistics New Zealand says. At 6.5 million, there are 1.2 million more dairy cattle in 2012 than in 2007.
A KEY Australian agricultural executive has warned if the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations get bogged down in complications, they will advise their Government not to bother.
Fonterra chairman-elect John Wilson (pictured right) has been re-appointed for another three year term as a director of the co-op.
A Huntly farmer has been fined $15,000 for illegally diverting water and constructing a stopbank in a wetland on his property.
There are just a few days left for people to enter the 2013 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards and stake their claim to the $140,000 in cash and prizes on offer.
For the three months ended November 2012 the median sales price per hectare for dairy farms was $37,166 (30 properties), compared to $36,766 (27 properties) for the three months ended November 2011, according to Real Estate Institute of New Zealand data.
New Zealand milk production has stayed stronger for longer than anticipated, matching the exceptional prior-year comparables will become more difficult beyond Christmas, says Rabobank's quarterly report.
The Commerce Commission has released a final report on its first statutory review of Fonterra's milk price manual. The manual determines how Fonterra calculates the farm gate milk price.
All 350,000 primary school children throughout New Zealand will be offered a free serving of milk every school day from next year, as part of the nationwide Fonterra Milk for Schools programme, the dairy cooperative announced today.
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Fonterra's dairy farmer supplier-shareholders are welcoming an early Christmas gift, with the cooperative lifting its 2012/13 forecast payout by 25 cents per kilogram of milk solids (kg/MS).
Meat and dairy products dominated the rise in total manufacturing sales for the September 2012 quarter, Statistics New Zealand says.
Fonterra is suspending for six months the five cents differential between its share-backed and non-share backed Farmgate Milk Price.
Northland kids have been drinking more milk – at school and at home – since the Fonterra Milk for Schools programme started in early 2012, according to an independent evaluation by the University of Auckland.
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