Construction of Fonterra's new $126 million UHT milk processing plant in Waitoa took another step forward with the site's blessing attended by Prime Minister John Key.
‘Every business needs a vision', and farms are no different, according to Australian crop farmer Hamish Millar, a recent graduate of the Rabobank Executive Development Program.
Surprising new evidence has led scientists to concentrate on the link between water and salt in the Australian landscape with hydrological research in NSW set to define new boundaries for water and land management.
Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has met with Fonterra Co-operative Group Chairman John Wilson for a tour of a South Auckland dairy farm and also visited the Co-operative’s Te Rapa manufacturing site.
In a sign that the wider market opportunities promised following grain deregulation are coming to fruition, growers who sold through online marketplace igrain last year received an average of $8 per metric tonne above market price.