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MPI IS introducing new rules which will reduce animal welfare risks in the nation's livestock – particularly in the dairy sector.

PRICES FOR MILK, CHEESE, and eggs rose 4.2% in the December 2013 quarter, the highest quarterly rise since the September 2010 quarter.

FONTERRA SAYS IT will 'vigorously defend' legal proceedings which have been formally initiated by Danone.

ONLY DAYS ARE left to enter the 2014 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards and collect some of the $710,000 in cash and prizes on offer.

WAITAKI MP JACQUI Dean is pleased with the efforts of farmers around Otago in fencing waterways, as Fonterra announces that 20,000kms of waterways across the country now exclude stock.

MICHAEL SPAANS has been elected as the new director on the Fonterra Board of Directors.

ENTRIES IN THE 2014 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards are running neck-and-neck with last year.

PRICES RECEIVED BY New Zealand producers, as measured by the output producers price index (PPI), rose 2.4% in the September 2013 quarter, Statistics New Zealand says.

THE ANZ Bank’s head of agri and commercial, Graham Turley, says farmers appear to be concentrating on profitability, which will help mitigate some of the Reserve Bank’s concern about the high level of debt in the dairy sector.

FONTERRA SHAREHOLDERS Council chairman, Ian Brown is urging co-op farmers to participate and elect the best-qualified people to govern their business.