Fonterra Cooperative Limited yesterday outlined details of its Group Strategy Refresh which aims to grow volumes and value by focusing more tightly on emerging markets and products that meet growing consumer demand for dairy nutrition.

The Fonterra Shareholders’ Council, which speaks for Fonterra’s 10,500 farmer-shareholders, has announced it cannot support the Government’s Dairy Industry Restructuring Bill as it is currently written.

Fonterra Cooperative Group's half year results mean it could be on track for revenue of $20 billion.

 A new bill detailing proposals to oversee Fonterra’s farm gate milk price setting and ensure a more transparent and efficient dairy market was tabled in Parliament yesterday by Primary Industries Minister David Carter.

The dairy industry is working hard but struggling to implement its much-heralded effluent code of practice and design standards, says irrigation industry stalwart Stuart Reid.

CHANGING NEW Zealanders' perception of Fonterra is a key strategy of chief executive Theo Spierings.

Growing people is foremost for Taranaki farmer Barbara Kuriger, named first-ever Dairy Woman of the Year. She received the award last week at the Dairy Womens Network conference in Rotorua.

A ‘womens problem’ common among cows cannot be ignored, and not only at-risk cows should be checked, a Dairy Womens Network workshop heard last week.

INSURANCE CLAIMS persist in Taranaki after two major storms hit the province in three weeks. The first extensively damaged dairy farms around Waverley and Patea, and one last week hit farmers in the north of the province.

THE RURAL real estate market is seeing a sustained recovery in turnover and price, judging by the latest figures from the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand.