SYNTHETIC FOOD, a trend away from milk products that need to be reconstituted, food police and the rapidly changing digital age. These are some of the issues canvassed in KPMG’s newly released Agribusiness Agenda ‘Exploring Our Global Future’.

WAIKATO MILK processor Tatua Dairy Co-op rounded off its centenary year celebrations with a gala dinner this month in Hamilton.

THE DAIRY Companies Association of New Zealand (DCANZ) the NZ-Korea FTA agreement will result in elimination of tariffs on the vast majority of dairy tariff lines over reasonable periods.

A STEADY stream of containers loaded with UHT milk are now leaving the Miraka dairy factory near Taupo heading for the China market.

AN AGRIBUSINESS academic says Fonterra’s 2013-14 payout was unfair to sharemilkers and unshared suppliers as it ‘dipped’ the milk price to fund dividend-driving assets such Waitoa’s UHT plant and more milk hubs in China.

MEAT CO-OP Alliance Group has reported a pre-tax profit of $17.6 million for 2013-14.

A STEADY stream of  containers loaded with UHT milk are leaving the Miraka dairy factory near Taupo headed for the China market. Miraka is contracted by the Chinese dairy giant Shanghai Pengxin to produce the UHT milk in 250ml branded packs for Chinese consumers.

FONTERRA IS offering winter milk contracts in Waikato to keep its new $120m UHT plant in year-round production. The plant at Waitoa has eight lines and can produce 28 packets of UHT milk and cream per second; it needs 100m L of milk every year.

MEET PETER Moore, newly appointed general manager PGG Wrightson Livestock.

WE ALL know China makes some crap. But we also know China makes quality items – Apple i-Phones, supertankers, Red Bands and Swandris, to name a few. The trick is knowing which is which.