Displaying items by tag: Fonterra
Lock your price in
Fonterra is again calling for applications by its farmers to lock in a guaranteed milk price (GMP) for the season.
Even less love for co-op
Not everyone loves Fonterra, let’s accept that.
Milk yield down, hopes up for price upturn
Fonterra is expecting milk production worldwide to slow as the low price makes it unsustainable to milk cows.
Dairy prices continue to fall
The Global Dairy Auction suffered its sixth successive fall last night with the average price index dropping 4.3% to US $2,412/MT.
Winter milk bonus an insult
Fonterra's one-off South Island winter milk offer of $1.40/kgMS has been slammed as “a complete insult to dairy farmers” by a long-time out-of-season supplier.
A season to forget
The 2014-15 season will be a season to forget for Fonterra farmers.
New yoghurts, organic milk hits sweet spot for co-op
Fonterra says it is hitting the sweet spot with a spate of new products in its New Zealand brands business.
Watching the planets
Dairy farmers will be bracing for sombre news from Fonterra this Wednesday.
Predicting the forecast a tough task for co-op
Farmers should expect “something around $5.00/kgMS” when Fonterra this week announces its opening forecast for the new season.
Is it really an equal playing field?
To call it a perfect storm trivialises the difficulties primary producers are facing in the balance between environment, welfare (human and animal) and economics.