Canterbury-based milk processor Synlait has downgraded its earnings expectation for the 2020 financial year.

A second case of Covid-19 has been confirmed in New Zealand. 

Australian agricultural production is forecast to remain high, despite bushfires and prolonged drought.

Unlike some other exporters, Fonterra’s scheduling, logistics and delivery activities to all markets are largely operating as normal, the cooperative says.

Export prices for meat achieved their highest-ever level in the December 2019 quarter, Stats NZ said today.

Well-known Southland farmer and agribusinessman Keith Neylon has just penned a no-holds barred biography.

Fonterra is sticking to its forecast farmgate milk price range at $7-$7.60/kgMS despite the global uncertainty around coronavirus.

The country’s red meat exports have been booming, but there are concerns how these may be impacted by the coronavirus outbreak in China.

The coronavirus epidemic is going to have a bigger impact than people think it is, according to Massey University Professor of Agribusiness, Hamish Gow.

Silver Fern Farms is giving weekly reports to its suppliers to keep them abreast of what it describes as a ‘dynamic situation in China and one that could change very quickly’.