Farming

New Zealand Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon Jacinda Ardern, has officially opened Alliance’s new $15.9 million venison plant in Southland. The Prime Minister joined Agriculture Minister, the Hon. Damien O’Connor, other dignitaries, Alliance leaders, staff and farmers at today’s opening ceremony at Lorne

A stock manager at the iconic Mount Linton Station has joined the race to be the next FMG Young Farmer of the Year. Jacob Mackie, 25, has qualified for the Otago/Southland regional final in Milton next February. “I’m stoked to get through. This will be my first time competing in a regional final,” s

Returning Officer Warwick Lampp, of electionz.com Ltd, has declared the final results of the 2018 elections for the Fonterra Board of Directors, Directors’ Remuneration Committee and Shareholders’ Council. Shareholders voted to elect Peter McBride and Leonie Guiney to the Board. Incumbent Director A

Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited today revised its 2018/19 forecast Farmgate Milk Price from $6.75 per kgMS to a range of $6.25-$6.50 per kgMS and increased its forecast New Zealand milk collection volumes by 1.3 per cent to 1,550 million kgMS. Fonterra Chief Executive, Miles Hurrell, says the ch

Alliance Group’s plan to recruit 100 overseas workers is a necessary move and representative of Southland’s increasing labour-force shortages, Southland Chamber of Commerce chief executive Sheree Carey says. As Alliance has indicated, its preference is to employ New Zealanders but significant shorta

Fonterra Co-operative Group (FCG) has announced that Miles Hurrell will take over as the Co-operative’s interim Chief Executive with immediate effect. Mr Hurrell is currently the Co-operative’s Chief Operating Officer, Farm Source – the unit responsible for working directly with the Co-operative’s f

Leading food company Alliance is launching a Winter Workshop Series for farmers next month. The co-operative is holding 12 workshops across the country for a range of shareholders and those interested in supplying livestock to the company. The series is aimed at Alliance’s female shareholders, exist

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