Synlait Milk plans to raise $75 million new primary capital and will also hold a secondary sell down set at about $45 million.

PRICES FOR most fertilisers are down with the two main suppliers releasing new but as usual almost identical price lists.

A MARKET is emerging in China for cleaner, greener food and if this could happen in China, it could happen anywhere, says Australian sustainability advisor Paul Gilding.

THE GLOBAL business environment is evolving so quickly it’s “about running to keep up so we are not made obsolete,” Zespri chief Lain Jager says. 

THERE ARE growing concerns about the actions – or lack of them in many cases – of the Ministry for Primary Industries in relation to its core functions.

SITTING IN the World Farmers Organisation general assembly in Japan – the ‘UN of farming’ – I was struck by how farmers feed families the world over. 

NEXT MONTH’S National Fieldays will do more than just connect farmers with suppliers: the organisers are focused on the global economy and how farming can tap into opportunities offshore. 

FOR 40 YEARS, we at ANZ have been pulling on our gumboots and getting in among it at National Fieldays. 

The 7400 bales on offer in the North Island today saw strong demand due to the lack of wool as a result of drought and in particular in the South Island wet weather conditions delaying shearing.

Michael Stein, a former director of quality for one the world's leading companies in paediatric nutrition, will join Synlait Milk as general manager quality later this month.