PLACENTAS WERE never part of Angela Payne’s plans when she started in business in 2002 supplying ‘waste’ animal products to a few niche clients.

More than 900 Fonterra manufacturing site staff are taking part in New Zealand's biggest annual winter maintenance spruce-up.

FONTERRA BRAND Tip Top’s Boysenberry Ripple ice cream has won the supreme award for a large manufacturer in this year’s national ice cream awards – the second consecutive year it has taken the award.

HAVING TROUBLE with heifers not performing as you’d like when they come into the herd? Then it might be worth looking at how they’re reared as calves, judging by research soon to be published by Massey University.

PROPERTY MAINTENANCE specialist Programmed Property Services is streamlining the cleaning and painting of a Northland farmer’s grain drying and silo complex.

Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy says a new or increased levy is one option to increase the level of inspection in countries from where we import palm kernel expeller (PKE).

FEDERATED FARMERS representatives who have seen first-hand the potential for contaminated PKE to reach New Zealand fear an official Ministry for Primary Industry visit to Malaysia this week won’t resolve the threat.

Moving forward isn’t always about the future. Sometimes you need to look at the past  to be successful. Which is something Neil Pollett of the Green Bottle Project is adamantly aware of.

CLAIMS OF major economic harm to the Tararua district, farmer stress and a lack of trust were some of the allegations levelled at Horizons Regional Council (HRC) at a public meeting last week in Dannevirke.  

OUR CHINA export story needs to “get a harder edge”, moving from talk to execution, says ANZ’s chief economist Cameron Bagrie.