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WorkSafe New Zealand is reviewing operations, looking for savings.
Over the next three weeks, leading lights from within the agriculture industry will come together with a shared purpose - to help the world’s best producers of milk stand strong.
ACT Party agriculture spokesman Mark Cameron claims that current Agriculture Minister, Damien O’Connor doesn’t understand farmers.
Fonterra farmers acknowledge that the forecast 2023-24 farmgate milk price range of $6 - $7.50/kgMS is well below break-even point for many of them.
Fonterra farmers have given the co-operative a thumbs up following an impressive full-year result.
DairyNZ chair Jim van der Poel says the low forecast farmgate milk price is already putting a lot of pressure on dairy farmers and their cashflows.
A warning to dairy farmers: don’t try to buy yourself out of any drought.
Despite being in financial doldrums, Synlait has created a five-year foodservice strategy that will target the Chinese market.
Listed Canterbury milk processor Synlait isn't ruling out more painful news for its shareholders this financial year.
A strong Fonterra co-operative is crucial for New Zealand dairy farmers, says Ruawai farmer Greg Gent.
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Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) staff have ramped up testing procedures and investigations in an effort to determine how a dairy herd in the Selwyn district of Canterbury contracted Mycoplasma bovis.
Former Fonterra Co-operative Council chair Simon Couper is making a comeback to a governance role within the co-operative.
Sitting Fonterra board members Brent Goldsack and Cathy Quinn are unopposed at this year’s director elections.
DairyNZ has updated the national breakeven forecast to $7.78/kgMS, a 27c increase from its previous forecast.
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