With the lowering of the farmgate milk price comes the squeezing of margins.

Your canine crusader hears that Fonterra’s current financial woes could see the dairy co-op dumping many of its key assets.

China remains the key to where the global marketplace is heading in dairy prices, says Westpac economist Anne Boniface.

Fonterra has dropped its forecast farmgate milk price for the season.

New Zealand’s favourite ice cream brand could soon be sold.

This year was pivotal in the “transformative dynamic” of a2 Milk Company and it had “really only just scratched the surface” of its potential as a business, chief executive Jayne Hrdlicka says.

The potential for organics in New Zealand is being viewed as huge because of dairy farmer competence and excellent growing and market conditions.

The formal opening of Mataura Valley Milk’s nutrition plant near Gore marks another step towards creating the world’s best nutrition business, says MVM general manager Bernard May.

OPINION: Asia is the ‘hot zone’ for dairy and will be the next dairy goldmine, especially the markets in China, India and some South-East Asian countries.

The US states Texas and California are being targeted by Lewis Road Creamery for its specialty butter.