Farming

Fonterra is taking a new approach to how it provides nutrition to communities, to better reach those most in need across New Zealand. CEO Miles Hurrell says, as a New Zealand farmer owned co-op, with employees spread right across regional New Zealand, Fonterra is part of many communities. “We’ve tak

Covid-19 has hit the farming community in an unexpected way: it is drying up the supply of farm vehicles such as quad bikes. That is because factories that assemble them in the United States have had their production disrupted by the virus April. Even where a factory has continued assembling the veh

Yesterday (Monday 7 September) the Minister for the Environment David Parker and Minister of Primary Industries Damien O’Connor met with council executives, farming and sector leaders and Fish and Game Southland. The meetings focused on the new national regulations for freshwater and their implement

Toyota is trying to track down the lead actors from a series of 1980s TV ads that featured Barry Crump and his city slicker sidekick Lloyd ‘Scotty’ Scott careering cross-country in a ute. The TV commercials were for the Hilux, and now the company wants to find the two original bush-bashing river-run

Specialty dairy company A2-Milk (ATM) is looking to take a majority stake in struggling Southland processor Mataura Valley Milk as it looks to expand its infant formula supply. ATM has made a non-binding offer of about $270 million for a 75.1 percent stake in Mataura, and has been given exclusive ri

Telford is partnering with DairyNZ to offer free entry-level training for career changers whose employment may have been impacted by Covid-19 and are serious about pursuing new opportunities in the farming sector. The GoDairy initiative is planned as a 3-week programme, introducing people to the dai

An online programme to enhance positive interactions between pigs and stockpeople and minimise handling-related stress in pigs is being adopted across New Zealand’s pork sector. The ProHand Pigs Stockperson training course, developed by the Animal Welfare Science Centre at the University of Melbourn

Loyal shareholders in Alliance Group, New Zealand‘s only 100 per cent farmer-owned major red meat co-operative, have been rewarded with a $5 million distribution. The quarterly payments have been made to Alliance’s Platinum and Gold shareholders who supply 100 per cent of their livestock to the comp