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The first container of Fonterra Milk for Schools packs for the South Island has left Auckland, with support from Mainfreight and Pacifica Shipping.
Fonterra is piloting a new 'Guaranteed Milk Price' (GMP) scheme that will provide farmers with more certainty in their milk price.
Wayne McNee, currently the director-general of the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), has been appointed chief executive of dairy farmer cooperative Livestock Improvement (LIC).
Fonterra has announced senior management changes in its Asia Pacific Middle East Africa (APMEA) business unit, including the departure of the existing managing director APMEA and the appointment of a new managing director for Australia.
ONE OF the world’s biggest dairy companies has broken ground on a site for a factory in the South Island.
AUSTRALIAN SUPERMARKETS are ravaging all dairy products and this will get worse, an expert commentator predicts.
ONE OF the most anticipated speakers at the DairyNZ Farmers Forum in Hawera is Joan Baker, a succession planning expert.
FONTERRA CHAIRMAN John Wilson says a decision to defer capacity adjustment charges will help drought-stricken farmers.
THE MAORI dairy company Miraka, at Taupo, stole the limelight on John Key’s trade mission to China last week in Shanghai when it signed a joint venture deal to produce UHT milk for the new owners of the Crafar farms, Shanghai Pengxin.
DROUGHT RAVAGED farmers are turning to ANZ for financial relief and assistance.
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UP TO 60,000ha in Wairarapa could be irrigated within a decade if plans by Greater Wellington Regional Council and other parties come to fruition.
PRIMARY INDUSTRIES Minister Nathan Guy says though much of the country is now in a ‘green drought’ phase, overall the drought has been very ‘patchy’.
PAHIATUA DAIRY farmer David Swansson says farmers need to be better prepared to deal with events such as droughts, floods and storms. After getting caught a few years ago he vowed never to let it happen again.
BETTER CONTROL of livestock is the promised payback from work by a Massey University industrial designer and Gallagher Animal Management to produce gear to enable farm workers to discover potential faults in their electric fencing.
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