Mike Petersen says the potential US-China trade war poses long term threats for NZ products.

A trade expert has backed up comments by agricultural trade envoy Mike Petersen, who says New Zealand is facing its most challenging time in trade in 30 years.

Agribusiness expert Keith Woodford says within the next five years China could be accepting only A2 milk products.

The maker of revered Kiwi Red Band gumboots is this year celebrating 60 years in production.

If you think only dairy farmers are facing fire from the new coalition Government, think again.

ProWein is the most important trade fair for wines and spirits worldwide. For a quarter of a century now it has been organised every March in the German metropolis of Düsseldorf bringing the global sector together. 

More segregation of milk to different factories is a strong likelihood for Fonterra, says chairman John Wilson.

The late rise in the farmgate milk price means Fonterra is now paying New Zealand farmers more than most of the world’s farmers are receiving, says chairman John Wilson.

NZ First should butt out of Fonterra’s business, says Lloyd Downing, a Morrinsville dairy farmer and former Waikato Federated Farmers president.

The emerging US-China trade war is the biggest challenge to trade in 30 years, says Mike Petersen, New Zealand’s special agricultural trade envoy.