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OPINION: Reckless action by Greenpeace in 2024 forced Fonterra to shut down a drying plant for four hours, costing the co-op…
Canterbury-based dairy enterprise Synlait Farms clinched the Lincoln University Foundation's South Island Farmer of the Year competition for 2012 last night (Thursday, November 8).
Secrets to milking even smarter will be revealed at 10 new-format DairyNZ Milksmart events being held nationwide over the next few months.
Three of New Zealand's leading experts in cow nutrition will provide the hard facts on feed at two DairyNZ events in Canterbury this month.
A FONTERRA scientist Dr Jeremy Hill has been elected president of the International Dairy Federation (IDF), the first New Zealander to hold that role in its 109-year history. Hill is director, research science technology and development, at Fonterra.
Fonterra has today signed an investment agreement with Yutian County, to develop two more large-scale dairy farms in Hebei Province.
The biggest number of entries on the first day have been received for the 2013 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards.
SEVEN MONTHS ago South Taranaki dairy farmer David Werder was standing in a paddock amongst twisted corrugated roofing that had been a hay barn. Today two new barns are up and his farming operation is back to normal.
WHAKATANE farmer Douglas Bull makes no apologies for being a champion of dairy cooperatives.
DAIRY WOMEN’S Network (DWN) chief executive Sarah Speight is well qualified to encourage other women to ignore ingrained attitudes as they step forward for leadership roles.
THE DAIRY Women’s Network has now hit 3100 members, growing by 700 in the year to June 2012.
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AUSTRALIAN FARMERS are welcoming the Federal Government’s decision to introduce a foreign investment register, announced last week by Prime Minister Julia Gillard at the National Farmers Federation national congress.
BY ALL accounts the upcoming Fonterra board election will be crucial for the co-op. It's the first opportunity for Fonterra shareholders to have a say on board-level governance since the TAF (trading among farmers) vote in June.
IN 1988, farmer George Siemon and six dairy farmer neighbours formed a small cooperative in Wisconsin. Under Siemon’s leadership, CROPP Cooperative (the Cooperative Regions of Organic Producer Pools) has become North America’s largest and most successful organic farmers’ cooperative.
FARMLANDS TRADING Society was considered a daring business model when it set up as a cooperative 50 years ago.
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