"Our" business?
OPINION: One particular bone the Hound has been gnawing on for years now is how the chattering classes want it both ways when it comes to the success of NZ's dairy industry.
Fonterra's two new farmer-elected directors are looking forward to their new roles.
Brent Goldsack and Andy Macfarlane were elected at the co-op’s annual meeting in Hawera last week.
Macfarlane says serving on the board of New Zealand’s largest company is a great responsibility.
Goldsack says he is humbled to be chosen to serve farmers.
“Fonterra is in great shape and I look forward to serving farmers and New Zealand.”
Shareholders voted to elect incumbent director John Monaghan and new directors Brent Goldsack and Andy Macfarlane.
Goldsack lives at Matangi and has farming interests in Waikato and Manawatu.
Born in Taranaki and raised on a dairy farm in Inglewood, Goldsack is a chartered accountant and was a partner at PwC for at least 12 years.
Macfarlane is from Ashburton and has extensive farming interests in Mid Canterbury.
He runs a rural and farm advisory business and is a director of AgResearch and Ngai Tahu Farming and a councillor of Lincoln University.
Goldsack and Macfarlane replace Leonie Guiney and David MacLeod on the board.
Wairarapa farmer John Monaghan was re-elected for another three-year term by farmers.
Alliance has announced a series of capital raise roadshow event, starting on 29 September in Tuatapere, Southland.
State farmer Pāmu (Landcorp) has announced a new equity partnership in an effort to support pathways to farm ownership for livestock farm operators.
Following a recent overweight incursion that saw a Mid-Canterbury contractor cop a $12,150 fine, the rural contracting industry is calling time on what they consider to be outdated and unworkable regulations regarding weight and dimensions that they say are impeding their businesses.
Trade Minister Todd McClay says his officials plan to meet their US counterparts every month from now on to better understand how the 15% tariff issue there will play out, and try and get some certainty there for our exporters about the future.
Brett Wotton, an Eastern Bay of Plenty kiwifruit grower and harvest contractor, has won the 2025 Kiwifruit Innovation Award for his work to support lifting fruit quality across the industry.