Fonterra bosses’ mission to sell the $4.2b divestment plan
Fonterra chair Peter McBride, fellow directors and the management team, will front up farmer shareholders next week to explain the metrics around the proposed $4.22 billion divestment plan.
Zespri chairman Peter McBride is challenging employers in the horticulture sector to do more for young people in the industry.
McBride told 400 people at the Bay of Plenty Young Grower of the Year competition of the need to develop young people and bring them through the industry.
It has a lot of physical assets, but the most important is people, he says.
"In developing our young people we are creating equity opportunities for them. There are models out there for encouraging our young people to become owners; [we can] and give them opportunity in our businesses either with capital or by helping them to secure loans."
McBride says with horticulture and tourism the fastest-growing industries in NZ that creates a world of opportunity for young people -- in management, post harvest, orchard management and roles in Zespri and in the horticultural services sector.
And there is also plenty of scope for people to start their own businesses, he says.
"The business environment has never been better for young people to flourish and take opportunities. Most of these come in periods of difficulty or downturn so these are also periods of high risk. But they have to take the opportunity when it comes and push the boat out and hope the water stays in the harbour."
Rollovers of quad bikes or ATVs towing calf milk trailers have typically prompted a Safety Alert from Safer Farms, the industry-led organisation dedicated to fostering a safer farming culture across New Zealand.
The Government has announced it has invested $8 million in lower methane dairy genetics research.
A group of Kiwi farmers are urging Alliance farmer-shareholders to vote against a deal that would see the red meat co-operative sell approximately $270 million in shares to Ireland's Dawn Meats.
In a few hundred words it's impossible to adequately describe the outstanding contribution that James Brendan Bolger made to New Zealand since he first entered politics in 1972.
Dawn Meats is set to increase its proposed investment in Alliance Group by up to $25 million following stronger than forecast year-end results by Alliance.
A day after the ouster of PGG Wrightson’s chair and his deputy, the listed rural trader’s board has appointed John Nichol as the new independent chair.
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