SUPPLIERS TO Hawkes Bay-based Lean Meats' Atkins Ranch Producer Group are set to get a $3.89 per lamb Christmas present in the last week of December.

HOKITIKA-BASED cooperative Westland Milk Products has lifted its payout forecast for the current season 30c to a range of $7.90-8.30/kg milksolids.

STRONG INTERNATIONAL demand and tight local supply augur well for beef producers in 2014, says a new report by Rabobank.

NEW ZEALAND ONION growers are gearing up for export markets across Asia.

COULD FONTERRA, and indeed other processors, be about to announce a Christmas bonus in the form of a raised payout forecast?

WHILE IT IS good news the inquiry into the whey protein incident concludes there was no failure with New Zealand's dairy regulatory system it confirms what we already knew, says Michael Barnett, chairman of the NZ Infant Formula Exporters Association.

THE GOVERNMENT has accepted in principle all 29 recommendations in the first stage of the Government inquiry into the whey protein concentrate contamination incident.

SYNLAIT MILK expects to outperform financial targets on the basis of a favourable product mix.

THE END of milk quotas in Europe from 2015 will add another dimension to the global milk supply, says Fonterra chairman John Wilson.

THE END of milk quotas in Europe from 2015 will add another dimension to the global milk supply, says Fonterra chairman John Wilson.