SYNLAIT HAS appointed Mike Lee to the newly created role of general manager sales reporting to the managing director Dr John Penno.

FEDERATED FARMERS president and Hawke's Bay farmer Bruce Wills has been named the 2014 Landcorp Agricultural Communicator of the Year.

A VISION FOR the Landcorp to transform New Zealand farming has been unveiled by it chief executive Steven Carden, 10 months into the role.

THE NEW ZEALAND Market Disciplinary Tribunal says Fonterra breached its rules by not releasing information to the markets as soon as was aware of potential contamination of product during last year's false-alarm food safety scare.

PRICES WERE up again at today's North Island-only wool sale as the weather and an overall reduction in the clip constrained supply.

Food company Goodman Fielder will spend $27 million on upgrading its UHT milk plant in Christchurch.

BALLANCE AGRI-NUTRIENTS has reached the half-way mark in its $19.5 million programme under the Ministry for Primary Industries' Primary Growth Partnership (PGP).

THE FARM Data Code of Practice, launched yesterday (June 10), is a first for the New Zealand agricultural industry.

THE DAIRY industry will need 2300 more, and better qualified, workers by 2025, says the Ministry for Primary Industries.

SHEEP FARMERS have the opportunity to create momentum off the back of improving wool prices, says Sandra Faulkner, chairman of the Wool Levy Group.