Fonterra's commitment to volume, value and velocity (growing volume and value with speed – also called Strategy Refresh) has been firm and appears frequently on the corporate website. 

Fonterra is losing control – control of correctly predicting the mood among commodity buyers and correctly predicting how dairy prices will fare.

The Hound reckons the Green Party’s former agriculture spokesman Steffan Browning is hypocritical in his recent attack on the appointment of the new boss of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Dr Alan Freeth.

This old mutt notes that scientists have now developed a genetically engineered rice crop that could emit much less methane than normal rice.

Your old mate sympathises with the plight of the country’s dairy farmers and how the falling payout is impacting their financial stability.

The Hound notes that many commentators and armchair critics are all down in the mouth about the prospects of agriculture and farming at present, especially because of tumbling dairy prices.

Australian farmers are throwing their support behind TPP despite last month’s failure by trade ministers to seal a deal.

Fonterra chairman John Wilson says from a Fonterra governance perspective and the way the cooperative manages its business, its balance sheet is strong.

The Fonterra Cooperative Support ‘loan’ to be made available to shared-up farmers shows the co-op is optimistic prices will come back, Fonterra chairman John Wilson says.

Stu Chapman started his working life as a dairy farmer in Waikato but after contracting leptospirosis he was advised to get away from cattle. That sent him to the other side of the ag sector – the commercial side. 

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