Open Country opens butter plant
When American retail giant Cosco came to audit Open Country Dairy’s new butter plant at the Waharoa site and give the green light to supply their American stores, they allowed themselves a week for the exercise.
NEW Zealand's largest culinary exhibition opens in Auckland on Thursday.
The Food Show Auckland kicks off this Thursday, and runs through to Sunday at the ASB Showgrounds.
One of the exhibitors is Lewis Road Creamery – producers of organic milk free from both permeate and palm kernel expeller. The line-up includes the first 100% Jersey milk to be available on supermarket shelve.
Visitors to Lewis Road Creamery will see some of the best cream and butter in the world, the company says.
Food Show visitors can also visit Nude Coconut or Heilala for organic coconut oil, and sample handcrafted olive oils at the Virtuo stand.
Beyond the array of tempting edibles, drinks, and gadgets, The Food Show Auckland also serves up a menu of special features to delight and amaze you.
Top of the list is the Whirlpool Cooking Theatre, home to free cooking demos from top celebrity chefs, including Peter Gordon, Simon Gault, Nadia Lim, Chelsea Winter, Annabelle White, Ray McVinnie, Sachie Nomura, Julie Le Clerc, plus MasterChef NZ 2014 Doubles winners Karena and Kasey Bird.
For tickets visit www.foodshow.co.nz
The sale of Fonterra’s global consumer and related businesses is expected to be completed within two months.
Fonterra is boosting its butter production capacity to meet growing demand.
For the most part, dairy farmers in the Waikato, Bay of Plenty, Tairawhiti and the Manawatu appear to have not been too badly affected by recent storms across the upper North Island.
South Island dairy production is up on last year despite an unusually wet, dull and stormy summer, says DairyNZ lower South Island regional manager Jared Stockman.
Following a side-by-side rolling into a gully, Safer Farms has issued a new Safety Alert.
Coming in at a year-end total at 3088 units, a rise of around 10% over the 2806 total for 2024, the signs are that the New Zealand farm machinery industry is turning the corner after a difficult couple of years.