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Fonterra has passed the peak milk production this season without any hitches at its plants.

Fonterra shareholders are being urged to vote in this year's board elections.

Pineapple-flavoured milk and cream are two of the products being churned out by Fonterra's new $120 million UHT milk processing site at Waitoa in the Waikato.

FONTERRA’S EXPANSION strategy should go on hold when its farmer suppliers aren’t getting a good return, says a shareholder who has tabled a remit for the cooperative’s annual meeting November 12.

RETIRING Fonterra director Jim van der Poel is back on the board of DairyNZ having retired from it in 2009. He was one of five candidates for Barbara Kuriger’s seat on the board following Kuriger’s resignation in order to stand for Parliament.

FONTERRA IS teaming up with the Government to help develop farmers in our key export markets.

FONTERRA IS inviting people near four key catchment sites to hear about a new plan to improve water quality.

FONTERRA HAS started consultation towards lodging consent applications to build two new high-efficiency milk powder driers at its Studholme site in South Canterbury.

THE IMPACT of Russia’s dairy ban on global dairy prices may be waning. The emergence of a ‘grey market’, allowing some Russian allies to buy milk from Europe and re-export it to Russia, is easing downward pressure on prices. 

VOTING FOR Fonterra’s board elections has begun.

Fonterra’s 10,500 shareholders were last week mailed their voting packs for board elections and, in four wards, shareholder council positions. Voting opened online, by fax or post on the same day at 10.30am.