Dairy Dairy commodity markets were weaker again in October 2022.

Despite the challenges over the last 30 months, worldwide sales of agricultural tractors and machinery have remained buoyant – albeit with disruptions of raw materials, components and shortages of staff.

With the rescheduled National Fieldays only a week away and the woes of Covid-19 largely behind us, the organisers are pushing a message of positivity for the rest of 2022 and beyond.

With only two weeks before the rescheduled National Fieldays, organisers are hoping to put the woes of Covid-19 behind them and take a positive slant into the end of 2022 and beyond.

Weaker demand for dairy, particularly in the key Chinese market, is being blamed for the continued slide in the forecast milk price.

OPINION: In 1984, the last time farming was declared a sunset industry, the newly elected Labour government began the deregulation of what had been a highly regulated pastoral economy.

Apple company Rockit Global Limited is planning for its biggest planting year yet - targeting a further 200ha of trees in the ground in 2023.

Fonterra has unveiled upgraded ‘application centres’ in Beijing and Shanghai where inhouse chefs demonstrate the co-op’s products for bakery and catering customers.

Easing global dairy prices have prompted one bank to drop its forecast milk price for this season by 60c/kgMS.

Fonterra veteran Kelvin Wickham remembers the tough days when he was out in new overseas markets trying to flog off surplus milk.