Displaying items by tag: Fonterra
Experts to review TAF
Fonterra is turning to expert advisors in a bid to make sure its controversial TAF (trading among farmers) proposal ensures 100% farmer control and ownership.
Milk flow still 10% ahead
FONTERRA SAYS it’s still collecting 10% more milk than last year, with about 65 million litres/day coming in.
TAF update? What update?
FONTERRA IS on the slippery slope towards demutualisation and a board “update” on the cause, the Trading Among Farmers proposal, yet again failed to recognise this, says one of a growing number of shareholders calling for a second vote on the proposal.
Fonterra to offer three TAF options
FONTERRA SAYS it will present options addressing concerns about some aspects of Trading Among Farmers (TAF) during a round of meetings starting in late January.
School milk makes a return
Northland students will get free milk every school day from next year as part of a trial for Fonterra's new Milk for Schools programme.
And then there were four...
A FOURTH supplier has signed up to sell produce through Fonterra’s GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) online auction.
Clean Streams Accord report prompts F&G flak
THE LATEST Clean Streams Accord report shows dairy farmers are heading in the right direction environmentally, says Fonterra, but Fish and Game has questioned the report’s credibility.
Early Christmas present for dairy farmers
FONTERRA HAS upped its forecast payout for the 2012 season 20c/kgMS to $6.90-$7.00 for a fully shared up farmer.
Gent elected to Southern Cross
FORMER FONTERRA director Greg Gent has been elected to the board of Southern Cross Medical Care Society, New Zealand’s largest health insurer with around 830,000 members.
Dairy prices tipped to swing
DAIRY PRICES will continue to fluctuate as economic uncertainty grips the EU and the US, says Fonterra chairman Henry van der Heyden.