Fonterra launches dairy youth programme with Growing Future Farmers
In partnership with Growing Future Farmers (GFF), Fonterra says it is increasing support for young people entering the dairy industry with a new two-year programme.
Your old mate notes that Greenpeace is challenging Fonterra to "prove that its massive use of palm products is not fuelling the enormous fires raging across Indonesia".
Apart from the ridiculous demand that Fonterra must prove 'it is not beating its wife', what really tickled this old mutt's interest was that the new NZ head of the eco-activist multi-national is none than one Dr Russel Norman. Yes, that would be the same Dr Russel Norman – who recently stood down as head of the NZ Green Party to take up the highly paid position at Greenpeace and was forever bagging Fonterra and the NZ dairy industry when he was an MP. It looks like dyed-in-the-wool (organic of course) Greenies never stop hating NZ's number one primary sector export earner. Yawn....
Moves are afoot to get a team of Australians over here to help repair North Canterbury's irrigation machinery, ravaged by the big windstorm of late October.
As you approach Hastings from the south along SH2, the colour of the west-facing hills are a good indicator of a drought.
Global beef trade is expected to grow steadily over the next five years, driven by increasing demand from Asia and strategic export expansions by South American countries.
Carpet maker Bremworth is reinstating solution-dyed nylon (SDN) into its product mix but says wool carpets remain central to its brand.
While New Zealand may be under siege from braindead, flesh-eating monstrosities, that doesn’t mean lambing can stop.
Milksolids levies paid by dairy farmers over the past six years have generated nearly $3 billion in value, according to an independent review.

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