Fonterra Whareroa sets cheese record, wins top award
Fonterra Whareroa wrapped up a successful season with a record-breaking cheese production volume and several gongs at the co-op's annual Best Site Cup awards.
NEW FONTERRA director Leonie Guiney says she is humbled by the farmer support.
Guiney won the Fonterra board elections along with two sitting directors- John Monaghan and David McLeod.
She took up her new position at Fonterra's annual meeting in Palmerston North today.
Guiney, an outspoken farmer from Fairlie, South Canterbury, has attacked Fonterra policies in the past.
She told the meeting that despite having issues with Fonterra's management, farmer shareholders were committed to the co-op.
"They are committed as long as they get a hearing," she says.
She noted that was essential for the co-op to be open for "two-way engagement".
A technical lab manager for Apata, Phoebe Scherer, has won the Bay of Plenty 2025 Young Grower regional title.
Following heavy rain which caused flooding in parts of Nelson-Tasman and sewerage overflows in Marlborough, the Insurance & Financial Services Ombudsman Scheme (IFSO Scheme) is urging homeowners and tenants to be cautious when cleaning up and to take the right steps to support claims.
Newly elected Federated Farmers meat and wool group chair Richard Dawkins says he will continue the great work done his predecessor Toby Williams.
Hosted by ginger dynamo Te Radar, the Fieldays Innovation Award Winners Event put the spotlight on the agricultural industry's most promising ideas.
According to DairyNZ's latest Econ Tracker update, there has been a rise in the forecast breakeven milk price for the 2025/26 season.
Despite the rain and a liberal coating of mud, engines roared, and the 50th Fieldays Tractor Pull Competition drew crowds of spectators across the four days of the annual event.
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