Takeover bid?
OPINION: Canterbury milk processor Synlait is showing no sign of bouncing back from its financial doldrums.
Landcorp will conclude its sharemilking contract with Shanghai Pengxin Group at the end of May 2017.
The world economy has veered into difficult and dangerous waters, suggesting 2016 will be a long hard year of slow recovery in prices in global food commodity markets, including dairy.
Analysts are now picking a dairy price recovery by the end of the year. Haven't they said that for the last three years?
Recently there has been a lot of negative news and comment about economic conditions in China – the slowing growth, a volatile stock market and the decrease in dairy imports.
Rural News asked the country's second biggest meat processor and exporter – Alliance Group – about the current woes in the red meat sector.
The international head of agribusiness at KPMG Ian Proudfoot has a sombre message for dairy farmers.
A group of red meat farmers seeking industry reforms have not given up hope despite bleeding support.
The world's biggest cloning factory being built in Tianjin, China, will begin cloning cattle in seven months.
OPINION: Canterbury milk processor Synlait is showing no sign of bouncing back from its financial doldrums.
OPINION: It seems every bugger in this country can get an award these days.