MVM struggles
OPINION: Nearly four years after buying a 75% stake in Southland processor Mataura Valley Milk (MVM), A2 Milk is still struggling to take the plant to profitability.
OPINION: Dairy News' stablemate Rural News, specifically The Hound, has upset a rural publisher by outing them for putting their snout deep in the trough of Labour's 'public interest journalism fund', something we refused to do.
To badly quote the Bard, they doth protest too much, methinks.
And like all media who took the PJIF dough and try to defend it, they miss the point: As soon as they took the money, from the Government, in return for agreeing to a prescribed editorial position, particularly on constitutional issues like Te Tiriti, they compromised their integrity and therefore their public reputations.
The public knows a Faustian pact when they see one and polls repeatedly show the majority of them think taking PJIF ping has compromised those that took it.
The cost of producing milk in New Zealand continues to compare favourably with other exporting regions despite a lift in production costs over the past five years.
DairyNZ says potential benefits from gene technology must be carefully weighed against the risks of such technology.
Pleased, but cautious. That’s how PGG Wrightson chief executive Stephen Guerin says he’s feeling about the rural retailer’s latest financial result.
Commodity prices and interest rates play a huge role in shaping farmer confidence, but these factors are beyond their control, says Federated Farmers dairy chair Richard McIntyre.
DairyNZ is supporting a proposed new learning model for apprenticeships and traineeships that would see training, education, and pastoral care delivered together to provide the best chance of success.
Two agritech companies have joined forces to help eliminate manual entry and save farmer time.
OPINION: Nearly four years after buying a 75% stake in Southland processor Mataura Valley Milk (MVM), A2 Milk is still…
OPINION: Fonterra isn't backing down in its fight with Greenpeace over the labelling of its iconic Anchor Butter.