Takeover bid?
OPINION: Canterbury milk processor Synlait is showing no sign of bouncing back from its financial doldrums.
Kelvin and Heather McKay say it was a natural progression for them to take out the 2015 West Coast/Top of the South Sharemilker/Equity Farmer of the Year title.
For the second year in a row the West Coast is drying out, causing a drop in the milk flow to Westland Milk Products.
Westland Milk farmer shareholders will be watching their spending very closely after the co-op slashed 60c off its 2014-15 forecast payout.
ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION company CRV Ambreed will donate semen products worth $27,750 to the West Coast Focus Farm Trust every year for the next three years.
The West Coast is today forwarding its request to the Ministry for Primary Industries for a medium scale adverse event declaration.
With the South Island's West Coast in the grip of drought, which is a highly unusual event, most farmers on the West Coast will have no idea how to cope with it or its aftermath.
OPINION: Canterbury milk processor Synlait is showing no sign of bouncing back from its financial doldrums.
OPINION: It seems every bugger in this country can get an award these days.