A Chinese e-commerce giant has bought a A$20 million stake in a new unit trust launched by Australia’s largest dairy company.

Leasing teaser bulls to farmers has earned Waikato dairy farmer Jennie Macky the best agri-businesswoman of the year title.

What the world needs now is a lot less milk.  The short-term outlook is grim. 

The most surprising factor, when entering Mark and Michelle Bocock’s calf shed, isn’t the number of calves but the silence.  There isn’t a sound.

Anybody watching international dairy markets knows it’s a bad time to try to move product.

One big push could see the Trans Pacific Partnership deal through, says trade expert Stephen Jacobi.

The former head of the Fonterra Shareholders Council, Ian Brown, has dismissed claims about the relevance of the council.

Fonterra has been fined $174,150 in Tauranga District Court for six separate offences under the Resource Management Act. Fonterra pled guilty to all six charges and was sentenced by Judge Smith at a hearing on July 27.

MyFarm director Grant Rowan is considering another tilt at the Fonterra board elections.

Having been raised on a 70-cow farm in Taranaki, Fonterra Shareholders Council’s new chairman Duncan Coull knows a lot about resilience.