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THE FONTERRA Milk for Schools rollout across New Zealand is complete with 1450 schools, 170,000 Kiwi kids and their families, 10,500 Fonterra farmers, and 74 Anchor milkmen involved.

MILK, BUTTER AND cheese lead a rise in exports in March which exceeded $5 billion in a month for the first time.

FONTERRA'S $120 million UHT milk processing site at Waitoa has produced its first 25,000 Anchor UHT cream packs ready for sale.

A DUTCH DAIRY veteran Henk Bles has been appointed to the newly-created role of managing director international farming ventures for an initial six-month period.

FONTERRA'S FENCEPOST smartphone app is being rolled out to farmer-approved farm consultants and on-farm staff.

FEDERATED FARMERS believes Fonterra's $300,000 fine on charges relating to the 2012 whey protein recall is "proportionate".

PRICES FOR dairy products were down 8.9% in the Global Dairy Trade auction overnight.

FONTERRA FARMERS will be offered two opportunities to lock in the price paid for a percentage of their milk in the 2014/15 season.

Fonterra's half year results means the co-op could be back on track to break the $20 billion revenue barrier, says Federated Farmers Dairy chairman Willy Leferink.

FONTERRA IS "very confident" with its legal position in the Danone case and has budgeted just $11 million, says Lukas Paravicini, chief financial officer.