Three bank economists see a risk of downside to farmgate prices from last week’s GDT auction where the overall price index dropped 2.4%.

Waikato milk processor Tatua will use retentions to grow its cream and protein based value-added products, says chief executive Brendhan Greaney.

Of the top five countries New Zealand trades with, it only has trade deals with two, an ExportNZ conference has heard.

AFFCO’S first shipment of chilled meat landed in China last month and will be swiftly followed by many more, says chairman Sam Lewis.

Meat Industry veteran Sir Graeme Harrison reckons the sector was summed up by a 1994 cartoon captioned, ‘we can’t see, we don’t hear and we don’t talk’.

Fonterra chairman John Wilson says the board has no regrets over its $700 million investment in troubled Chinese child nutrition trader Beingmate.

During the election campaign NZ farmers – and the rural community in general – came under attack from politicians and the public, and felt they were being demonised.

Farmers buying store cattle should be careful not to pay too much, warns Silver Fern Farms chief executive Dean Hamilton.

National’s foreign spokesman Gerry Brownlee last month addressed the Canterbury Employers Chambers of Commerce about the headwinds facing global trade, including geo-political issues.

The butter boom is rolling on, says ASB senior rural economist Nathan Penny.