Fonterra has announced the launch of a new range of premium Anchor products in China, in response to the ongoing growth in demand for safe, high-quality dairy nutrition.

With consumer preferences changing, farmers are faced with a choice between intensive farming with all the technologies.

Silver Fern Farms and Shanghai Maling completed their partnership yesterday.

The voters have spoken – twice!

In an ironic twist to the long-running Silver Fern Farms and Shanghai Maling merger saga, the deal will now be done earlier than planned.

The big dairy processors in New Zealand are lifting payout forecasts for 2015-16 in a further sign of a rebound in global milk prices.

The 4700 bales on offer saw a 74% clearance with mixed results, however all prices paid locally are still above last week’s North Island auction levels, NZ Wool Services International chief executive John Dawson reports.

Synlait Milk’s annual meeting of shareholders yesterday highlighted that their record 2016 profit of $34.4 million showed their value added strategy is successful.

Dairy Goat Co-operative, Hamilton, the world’s largest maker of goat infant formula, is happy to follow a market-led philosophy.

More than 75% of New Zealand’s dairy exports to China are still subject to tariffs the industry thought would by now be cut.