Farming

The dairy industry wants New Zealanders to fall back in love with life on the farm. With Covid-19 meaning the migrant workforce is not available, it is predicted the sector will need to fill 1000 jobs in time for Moving Day on 1 June – the first day of the new dairy season. The Fortuna […]

Drummond woman Jessica Goodwright has been announced as one of four Dairy Women’s Network (DWN) finalists for the 2020 DWN Regional Leader of the Year Award. Jessica is the Dairy Women’s Network Regional Leader for Central Southland, and also farms in equity partnership with another dairy farm in So

Potential for more aquaculture in Tasman and Golden Bays, and in Northland, Southland and the Coromandel has triggered growth in one of the New Zealand’s largest aquaculture consultancies. Top of the South Island-based Aquaculture Direct has sold 50 percent of the company to Auckland-based sustainab

Leading food and solutions co-operative Alliance Group is investing $4 million to lift its beef processing capacity in the South Island. The company will invest further in its 18-month-old venison plant at Lorneville near Invercargill to enable the facility to also process cull cows during peak seas

Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor has announced Moving Day will go ahead as planned for dairy farmers this year, but with strict controls to help prevent the spread of Covid-19. On 1 June each year, the first day of the new dairy season, a large number of dairy farming families, sharemilkers, con

Fonterra today announced the appointment of a new Independent Director, Holly Kramer, who will join the Fonterra Board as an Independent Director on 11 May 2020. Ms Kramer is based in New South Wales and has extensive governance, multinational, and retail business experience. She currently holds a n

New Zealand exported sheepmeat and beef worth $921 million in February with the value largely unchanged from a year earlier despite COVID-19, according to the latest figures from the Meat Industry Association (MIA). The impact of COVID-19 saw the value of exports to China drop by 45 per cent to $175

A bright spot is emerging in the economic gloom with New Zealand’s largest company Fonterra saying it is in good financial heart and expects to remain so during the Covid-19 pandemic. Chief executive Miles Hurrell told RNZ that the global dairy giant, owned by its 10,000 farmers, was expecting the m