Fonterra vote
OPINION: Voting is underway for Fonterra’s divestment proposal, with shareholders deciding whether or not sell its consumer brands business.
Dairy commodity prices have shaken off the past year's uncertainty, entering 2021 with a strong price trajectory.
With just one more Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction left for the 2020-21 season, bumper dairy price gains recorded in March remain intact.
With just under three months to go this season, attention is turning to the opening forecast milk price for 2021-22.
Fonterra's decision to downgrade its 2020-21 milk price midpoint by 5c has surprised farmers and markets.
Fonterra has for the first time passed all its forecast milk price rise to its cash-strapped farmer suppliers.
Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd increased its 2016/17 forecast farmgate milk price by 50 cents to $5.25/kgMS.
“A super start to spring” is how Rabobank dairy analyst Emma Higgins describes the third consecutive significant rise on the Global Dairy Trade (GDT) event platform.
OPINION: Voting is underway for Fonterra’s divestment proposal, with shareholders deciding whether or not sell its consumer brands business.
OPINION: Politicians and Wellington bureaucrats should take a leaf out of the book of Canterbury District Police Commander Superintendent Tony Hill.