ABOUT 3500 Waikato farmers will soon require resource consent to take extra water for dairy shed use.

HOKITIKA CO-OP Westland Milk Products has reiterated its $6.60-$7/kgMS forecast for 2011-12.

FONTERRA'S NEW director David MacLeod, South Taranaki, has been wired into the dairy industry for over two decades.

THE RE-ELECTION of a National-led Government has boosted Fonterra’s chances of sewing up the TAF (trading among farmers) proposal by the end of next year.

AS Greenpeace launches its annual attack on dairying's use of palm kernel, drought is looming over key agricultural areas, threatening to put pressure on feed availability.

RURAL RETAILER Farmlands says it has taken another step in its quest to become the North Island's dominant player.

THE DAIRY industry is funding a scoping study into biological farming systems.

THE FIRST product from Synlait’s new $100 million infant formula plant will appear on supermarket shelves in Shanghai in the next fortnight. 

A LEADING economist is predicting the New Zealand dollar to drop buffering farmers from lower commodity prices in the coming year.

THE TRUE cost of NAIT will hit dairy and beef farmers from next July when they may have to fork out about $7 million to fund most of the ongoing costs of the scheme.