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The merger of two of the country’s largest animal nutrition companies won’t lessen competition, the Commerce Commission has ruled.

Rural trader Farmlands has completed the final hurdle to purchase animal nutrition business Seales Winslow.

Listed milk processor Synlait is partnering with rural retailer Farmlands to deliver exclusive discounts to farmer suppliers, who have been battling high farm input costs for the past two years.

Tributes have continued to flow in for Warren Parker, who died suddenly just after Christmas.

Farmlands chief executive Tanya Houghton admits that the rural retailer is making a number of changes to its business model.

Rural retailer and supplier Farmlands is being accused of going off the rails and shareholders are being urged to take back control of the co-operative.

Rural retailer and supplier Farmlands concedes it has had a challenging year.

Farmlands has made an offer to purchase SealesWinslow – an animal nutrition business currently owned by Ballance Agri-Nutrients (Ballance).

Animal nutrition company SealesWinslow could soon be part of rural service provider, Farmlands.

OPINION: Think co-operatives and some of our biggest agribusiness companies – Fonterra, Zespri, Alliance Group, Silver Fern Farms, Farmlands, LIC, Ballance, Ravensdown and Tatua – come to mind.