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Fonterra has revised its 2018/19 forecast farmgate milk price from $7.00 per kgMS to $6.75 per kgMS.

I was intrigued earlier this year when Fonterra said milk production was only down 1%.

This month, Fonterra marks the one-year anniversary of TIAKI – our sustainable dairying programme that helps farmers make their operations more environmentally compliant. 

Directly comparing Fonterra with Open Country and Synlait is unfair, but nevertheless, Fonterra as a business hasn’t performed well, says Nic Lees, senior lecturer in agribusiness management at Lincoln University.

Fonterra is launching a milk beverage to tap into the emerging consumer trend called ‘snacking’.

Exactly five years ago Fonterra launched its first Anchor milk product in China, today it is sold in 13,000 stores in 220 Chinese cities.

Former Fonterra director Mark Townshend says that despite the A+ rating Fonterra should get from its shareholders for its ingredients business, clearly some Fonterra investments are performing very poorly.

Corporate farmer and former Fonterra director Mark Townshend is urging shareholders to support Fonterra and its new leadership.

Fonterra’s new cream cheese plant in Canterbury is set to manufacture up to 24,000 metric tonnes of cream cheese annually, bound for China. 

This time last month, not many people were aware that a new era was dawning on the world’s largest dairy exporter, Fonterra.