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Milk tankers have started rolling out of Northland this week while the remaining Fonterra manufacturing sites are in the final stages of a $100 million maintenance upgrade.
The South Island's last independent supplier of fluid milk says that permeate – a byproduct of milk processing which Fonterra admits routinely adding to their blue top products – makes milk less healthy and less tasty, and its use should be declared on the label.
Fonterra yesterday unveiled the next step in its strategy to build a high-quality, sustainable fresh local milk supply in China, announcing plans to invest $100 million to develop two new large-scale dairy farms in Hebei province.
Fonterra Cooperative Limited yesterday outlined details of its Group Strategy Refresh which aims to grow volumes and value by focusing more tightly on emerging markets and products that meet growing consumer demand for dairy nutrition.
The Fonterra Shareholders’ Council, which speaks for Fonterra’s 10,500 farmer-shareholders, has announced it cannot support the Government’s Dairy Industry Restructuring Bill as it is currently written.
A new bill detailing proposals to oversee Fonterra’s farm gate milk price setting and ensure a more transparent and efficient dairy market was tabled in Parliament yesterday by Primary Industries Minister David Carter.
Northland community leaders gathered at Manaia View School in Whangarei yesterday to celebrate the first day of the Fonterra Milk for Schools programme.
The biggest silo ever made in a New Zealand workshop and transported in one piece rolled out of the Mercer Stainless manufacturing plant in Christchurch early this morning.
Federated Farmers has conditionally backed changes to the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act (DIRA) and its Raw Milk Regulations. Its submission stresses that any change to the DIRA for Fonterra's TAF (trading among farmers) hinges on supplier-shareholder endorsement.
GOAT MILK sales growth of 50% in two years is prompting the Dairy Goat Cooperative (Hamilton) to look for suppliers in Northland and Taranaki.
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