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Waikato Milking Systems will this month exhibit at China’s biggest rural trade show.
A former Fonterra director says the co-op will do well in India “provided it’s prepared to play the long game”.
The dairy farming industry needs to keep thinking about what it can do differently in response to the big change coming at it, says Luke Beehre, project leader of the Northland Extension 350 (E350) programme.
Banks are mainly holding firm on their forecasts of $7/kgMS despite last week’s flat Global Dairy Trade result – a small decline of 0.4% in the overall price index.
Seemingly crazy “carryings-on” by some world leaders and influencers should not cause Kiwi farmers to sit on their hands worrying.
The primary sector has not been good at engaging, connecting and understanding Māori, says Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor.
OPINION: The current NZ farming system is no longer profitable and does not meet modern standards. It’s time for an entirely new system.
Federated Farmers' conference last week was a great success, says president Katie Milne.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand’s economy is entering a dramatic new era of change with all the primary sector’s challenges ‘lying on the table’ together.
It's time to bring primary industry marketers onto farms, says Han Johr, corporate head of agriculture at Nestle.
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Westland Milk Products’ sale to Chinese interests is an ironic end to the co-op, which last August was named New Zealand’s 2018 Cooperative Business of the Year.
Westland chair Pete Morrison has reiterated the terms under which protesting former suppliers had surrendered their shares that they say are worth millions.
A group of former suppliers of Westland Milk Products has formally asked the Overseas Investment Office to block or delay the sale to Yili.
Westland Milk Products shareholders voted overwhelmingly last Thursday to sell their co-op to Chinese dairy giant Yili.
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