Fonterra trims board size
Fonterra’s board has been reduced to nine - comprising six farmer-elected and three appointed directors.
OPINION: Fonterra's impending departure from Hamilton's central business district is causing anxiety among business houses.
For over 60 years, dairy co-operatives have been one of the biggest employers in central Hamilton. Locals may remember ‘gumboot castle’ for instance – the old NZ Dairy Group building in the CBD.
Fonterra said it was committed to retaining an office in the Waikato, but it was looking all over – not just in Hamilton.
The Hamilton Business Association desperately hopes the co-op and its 400 staff stay in town; after all, the city was built on agri-businesses like Fonterra and it’s predecessors.
But Fonterra is seeing an increase in employees opting to ‘work from home’. This means that a large site like the eight-storey building on London St is no longer fit for purpose.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says the relationship between New Zealand and the US will remain strong and enduring irrespective of changing administrations.
More than 200 people turned out on Thursday, November 21 to see what progress has been made on one of NZ's biggest and most comprehensive agriculture research programmes on regenerative agriculture.
The a2 Milk Company (a2MC) says securing more China label registrations and developing its own nutritional manufacturing capability are high on its agenda.
Stellar speakers, top-notch trade sites, innovation, technology and connections are all on offer at the 2025 East Coast Farming Expo being once again hosted in Wairoa in February.
As a guest of the Italian Trade Association, Rural News Group Machinery Editor Mark Daniel took the opportunity to make an early November dash to Bologna to the 46th EIMA exhibition.
Livestock can be bred for lower methane emissions while also improving productivity at a rate greater than what the industry is currently achieving, research has shown.
OPINION: Fonterra may have sold its dairy farms in China but the appetite for collaboration with the country remains strong.
OPINION: The Listener's latest piece on winter grazing among Southland dairy farmers leaves much to be desired.