Misguided campaign
OPINION: Last week, Greenpeace lit up Fonterra's Auckland headquarters with 'messages from the common people' - that the sector is…
Once again dairy farmers have been struck a cruel blow with the weather playing the trump card.
Argentina, once seen as a world ‘bread basket’, today faces many obstacles in achieving this. Argentinean student Pablo Fraga reports on the challenges of dairy farming in his country.
What's trending in the dairy world? Jacqueline Chow, Fonterra’s COO global consumer and foodservice, explains...
No one immediate solution is available to New Zealand to deal with the problem of greenhouse gas emissions caused by agriculture.
The winner of the Massey Agricultural Student of the Year prize, DairyNZ scholar Jack van Bussel (20), is planning a future in rural banking.
Irish scientists are working on breeding grasses and cereal crops able to better handle wet conditions.
LIC has bowed to shareholder pressure by dropping its plan to transfer its herd testing and Minda businesses to a subsidiary.
Dairy farmers in most North Island regions are hard hit by rain which is hindering pasture utilisation and causing milk production to drop.
A ship barred from discharging its palm kernel expeller (PKE) cargo remained anchored off Tauranga Port late last week.
A renunion of two innovative dairy brands is aimed at pleasing butter lovers.
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Fonterra's peak milk collection has taken a hit from the prolonged wet weather hitting North Island production.
The success of an on-farm exercise run by the Ministry for Primary Industries shows that NZ is well prepared to manage the biosecurity aspects of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, it says.
Two long-serving Fonterra farmer directors – Malcolm Bailey and Ian Farrelly –will retire from the Fonterra board at the cooperative’s annual meeting on 8 December.
The double auctions in the South and North Islands attracted more interest yesterday.
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