Farmlands Posts Strong 2025 Half-Year Growth
Rural retailer Farmlands has released it's latest round of half-year results, labeling it as evidence that its five-year strategy is delivering on financial performance and better value for members.
About 100 Silver Fern Farm shareholders have turned up for the company's special meeting in Dunedin.
The largest processing company, Silver Fern Farms (SFF), owned by 6200 farmer shareholders, has been offered the lifeline of a $261 million injection by Shanghai Maling, a Chinese company.
Shareholders will vote on the proposal today.
Chairman Rob Hewett thanked the shareholders for their strong interest in the company.
SFF chief executive Dean Hamilton told shareholders that the proposal gives the company a unique position in China.
"It will help us truly unleash our pasture to plate strategy," he says.
Voting results are expected around midday.
New Zealand's diverse cheesemaking talent shone brightly last night as the New Zealand Specialist Cheesemakers Association (NZSCA) crowned the champions of the 2026 New Zealand Cheese Awards.
Tracing has indicated that the source of the first velvetleaf find of the 2025-26 crop season, in Auckland, was likely maize purchased in the Waikato region.
Fish & Game New Zealand has announced its election priorities in its Manifesto 2026.
With the forage maize harvest started in Northland and the Waikato, the Foundation for Arable Research (FAR) is telling growers of later crops, or those further south, to start checking their maize crop maturity about three weeks prior to when they think they will start silage harvesting.
Irrigation NZ is warning that the government's Resource Management Act (RMA) reform risks falling short of its objectives unless water use for food production and water storage infrastructure are clearly recognised in the goals at the top of the new system.
More than five million trays, or 18,000 tonnes, of Zespri’s RubyRed Kiwifruit will soon be available for consumers across 16 markets this season.

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