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A Northern Southland farmer had his actions described as “reckless” during a sentencing at the Invercargill District Court this morning.

Yoghurt Story New Zealand Ltd and Frozen Yoghurt Ltd have been sentenced and fined in the Auckland District Court for misleading the public about the nature and characteristics of their frozen yoghurt products.

A Taranaki dairy farm has been fined $87,000 for employment breaches in a case reflecting the Labour Inspectorate’s intolerance of negligent employers.

Dairy farmers who fail to keep written employment agreements or time records can expect to receive a sharp shock, as the Labour Inspectorate launches a nationwide probe into compliance in the industry.

While police are investigating the theft of 500 cows from an Ashburton farm, another nearby farmer says it is the third known theft of cows this year in a 50km radius of that farm.

Southern Police are urging farmers to be vigilant and to protect their herds, after the theft of eight newborn Friesian heifer calves.

Food fraud is estimated to cost the global food industry $US49 billion a year, with New Zealand companies bearing their share of the brunt.

The Food Act came into force on 1 March 2016, focussed on the production of food in New Zealand.

The online sale of wine is now commonplace and an increasing number of both local and international retailers are using this forum for promoting and selling wine.

Dairy industry leaders have welcomed the successful prosecution of a businessman who threatened to spike infant formula with 1080.