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Fonterra food service on track for $5b in sales

Fonterra says its food service business is on track to earn $5 billion by 2023.

Farmers fight back

Hurunui mayor Winton Dalley speaks at the launch of ‘Proud to be a Farmer NZ’, at the Fossil Point Cafe in Greta Valley.

Farmers have had to endure an unprecedented and unrelenting attack on their industry, says Hurunui mayor and farmer Winton Dalley.

Triumphant Skippy leaves no ‘calling cards’

Kate Stewart with Rural News Group’s Peter Burke

Kate Stewart, helped by a pet ram lamb Skippy, won this year’s Massey University Rural News Group-sponsored video competition.

Need to better trace Chinese exports

MPI’s Tim Knox says NZ exporters need to keep pace with China’s fast-moving regulatory environment.

What happens inside the border in China is something this country needs to understand much better, says Tim Knox, MPI director for market access, policy and trade.

Iran comes back for more

A trial shipment of frozen lamb to Iran, sent earlier this year, has led to another order on the Wellington exporter, Taylor Preston.

Massey’s vet school to go it alone

Massey University chancellor Jan Thomas.

Massey University is to create a new standalone vet school, separating it out from the present Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences.

OCD looks at new milk price model

Milk processor Open Country Dairy is looking at a ‘farm price’ model for paying its farmer suppliers.

Primary sector ready to work with new govt

Beef + Lamb NZ chair James Parsons sees forestry as a potential fishhook in the new coalition agreement.

Get Brexit right – UK dairy farmers

Brexit presents “the biggest seismic change” to the dairy industry in the UK, says Tomas Pietrangeli, UK managing director of Arla Foods.

Landcorp off the market

Landcorp chief executive Steven Carden, Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor and Landcorp chair Traci Houpapa at the Pamu food tasting session in Wellington last week.

Landcorp will not be sold, nor will any of its farms.

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Re-define the word ‘commodity’

MPI’s latest Situation and Outlook Report (SOPI) sounds a positive note: primary exports are expected to rise 9.3% to $41.6 billion in the year ended June 2018.

PGG Wrightson optimistic on outlook

The 2018 financial year has begun with confidence high among dairy, beef and horticultural clients due to good commodity prices, says PGG Wrightson in its first quarter guidance update to shareholders.