Foreign Investment: Asian INterests Grab Milk Assets
The debate stirred by the potential sale of the 16 Crafar Farms to Hong Kong Chinese interests needs to be put in context. Hong …
Archive for July, 2010
Farm Management: Value of nutrient blocks questioned
Nutrition blocks are not an effective means of providing nutrients to livestock. Dr Neville Grace says the biggest problem with the blocks is the …
Emissions: Carbon Answer Lies In The Ground
Leading Australian scientist Professor Tim Flannery claims farmers can solve NZ’s carbon issues through how they treat their soil. Flannery is a well-known champion …
Food Prices: Food Prices Fall Most In Decades
Fonterra’s monthly milk powder auctions have shown a leveling off in prices economists say is inevitable given the meteoric rise from their trough a …
Farm Emissions: Australia, NZ Seeing Eye To Eye On Emissions
NZ and Aust may not yet share a common currency, but the recent annual Closer Economic Relations meeting between the country’s respective agriculture ministers …
Meat Industry: Silver Fern envious of Fonterra’s shareholder vote
Fonterra’s shareholders’ unanimous vote in favour of share trading among farmers has met the approval of southern-based meat company Silver Fern Farms. SFF chairman …
Dairy Sector: Will Fonterra share trading go to Stage 4?
Fonterra’s 10,500 farmer-suppliers have approved a plan to establish a restricted market in its shares, open only to members of the co-operative, in what …
Wool Industry: Wool Gains New “Single Voice”
The Wool Industry has got a national body back – signed up members include PGG Wrightson and Elders, who have competing marketing schemes. One …
NZ Trade: Vegetable growers facing battle against imports
Latest figures from Statistics NZ show domestic vegetable producers are suffering at the hands of a rising tide of vegetable imports. Between 2005 and …
NZ Dairy Sector: Carter challenges Fed Farmers to justify subs
Farmers have found a taste for voting with their feet in recent years – witness the end of the wool levy. Agriculture Minister David …
