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Your old mate notes that Greenpeace is challenging Fonterra to "prove that its massive use of palm products is not fuelling the enormous fires raging across Indonesia".

Fonterra's return on capital sits at the bottom end of the range of returns of other global dairy co-ops, says the Shareholders Council.

Fonterra will sell its 50% interest in DairiConcepts, the co-op's US joint venture with Dairy Farmers of America (DFA).

Fonterra is setting up hubs of entrepreneurial young people to develop new business models, says Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings.

Former Fonterra directors Greg Gent and Colin Armer are banking on the "silent majority" of co-op shareholders in their quest to revamp the board.

Speaking of Fonterra, the Hound received a curt note from a failed board candidate in last year's election...

It's been another bad morning for the dairy industry.

Fonterra has welcomed the formal approval by the shareholders of Beingmate Baby and Child Food Company Ltd to establish a joint venture to purchase the cooperative's Darnum plant in Australia.

Your old mate wonders if the recent sudden and under-the-radar departure of Fonterra's top communications man Kerry Underhill may be linked to the board's recent re-think on the co-op's communications strategy.

On-shelf dairy prices for consumers in China are too high so demand is not growing, says Fonterra's chief executive Theo Spierings.