Alliance announces capital raise roadshow
Alliance has announced a series of capital raise roadshow event, starting on 29 September in Tuatapere, Southland.
Alliance Group has secured an exclusive deal to supply chilled New Zealand lamb to UK retailer Marks & Spencer.
The cooperative will be the sole supplier to Marks & Spencer from Christmas 2012, sourcing lambs from approved South Island farms for processing at the company's Lorneville (Invercargill), Pukeuri (Oamaru) and Smithfield (Timaru) plants.
This is the first time Marks & Spencer has agreed to an exclusive deal for chilled lamb from a single New Zealand supplier.
All Alliance Group products supplied to Marks & Spencer will be sourced from registered M&S Select farms so that the cooperative can trace lambs back to their farm of origin.
The M&S Select Farm scheme has supplying farmers registered on M&S Trak, a traceability management system launched by Marks & Spencer in 2009. The programme, which includes lamb suppliers from New Zealand and the UK, has a database that monitors farm management, animal origin and livestock records.
Meanwhile, in conjunction with AbacusBio (UK), Alliance Group is introducing its Hoofprint programme to selected UK farmers supplying lambs to Marks & Spencer. Hoofprint helps farmers monitor their carbon footprint and improve productivity. The Hoofprint model will be released to all registered Trak suppliers in New Zealand.
NZPork has appointed Auckland-based Paul Bucknell as its new chair.
The Government claims to have delivered on its election promise to protect productive farmland from emissions trading scheme (ETS) but red meat farmers aren’t happy.
Foot and Mouth Disease outbreaks could have a detrimental impact on any country's rural sector, as seen in the United Kingdom's 2000 outbreak that saw the compulsory slaughter of over six million animals.
The Ministry for the Environment is joining as a national award sponsor in the Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA from next year).
Kiwis are wasting less of their food than they were two years ago, and this has been enough to push New Zealand’s total household food waste bill lower, the 2025 Rabobank KiwiHarvest Food Waste survey has found.
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