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Fonterra quiet on consumer business sale progress, more to come next week
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Fonterra posts strong $1.1 billion net profit
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Peter Jensen turns 100: From farm life to Korea's battlefields
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Mark Cameron talks rural mental health on The Country
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Generation after generation – 90 years of Wattie's in Hawke's Bay celebrated
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Wet Southland spring 'takes its toll' on farmers and their animals
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Fresh vege surplus challenges asparagus growers as season begins
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Fonterra farmers will zero in on milk price in FY24 results this week
Plans for the sale of the consumer business are also in the market spotlight.
Soldier, farrier, bullock-wrangler: The untold story of Cecil Gordon Lee
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