In the year Skellerup’s iconic Red Band gumboots turn 60, the company is celebrating a record profit.

Directly comparing Fonterra with Open Country and Synlait is unfair, but nevertheless, Fonterra as a business hasn’t performed well, says Nic Lees, senior lecturer in agribusiness management at Lincoln University.

Fonterra is launching a milk beverage to tap into the emerging consumer trend called ‘snacking’.

Keytone Dairy, a Christchurch-based manufacturer, packer and exporter of powdered dairy products, has listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) as it raises capital for a major expansion of its Canterbury manufacturing operation.

The covered cow shelter on the NZ Young Farmers-owned Donald Pearson Farm has come in handy during a wet winter.

Lots of talk is heard about alternative  – or non-dairy – milks and whether to ban the word ‘milk’ in that context.

A recent High Court judgement has given guidelines to sentence employers who fail to protect the health and safety of workers.

Fonterra’s new cream cheese plant in Canterbury is set to manufacture up to 24,000 metric tonnes of cream cheese annually, bound for China. 

When 60 heads of large New Zealand companies recently committed to a transition to a low emissions economy, some environmentalists were wary.

Once farmers have understood the environmental issues, they leaping ahead of regulators and do it anyway, says Federated Farmers president and dairy farmer Katie Milne.