Milk tankers to get access to Kaikoura
From Monday milk tankers and other essential freight will be given access in and out of Kaikoura.
From Monday milk tankers and other essential freight will be given access in and out of Kaikoura.
Whole milk powder futures for December last traded at US$3,480 a tonne, a 2.1 per cent premium to their previous GDT level.
Synlait has been named the winner of this year's Deloitte Top 200 Best Growth Strategy category.
Fonterra topped the Deloitte Top 200 again this year for profit -- increasing 65 per cent.
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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has set the New Zealand Government tasks to help stimulate economic expansion
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The controversial deal which will see meat processor Silver Fern Farms sell a 50 per cent controlling stake to Shanghai Maling is set to be completed.
A farmer suffered leg and back injuries after falling out of a tree on his Hawke's Bay farm.
Fonterra Cooperative Group says milk collection has been restored in earthquake damaged Culverden, Waiau and Amuri areas.
Emergency supplies have finally landed in a cut-off community just 22km north of Kaikoura.
The Waverley A&P Show has been going for 86 years. People come from around the region to experience what is one of the last old style farming events around.
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Federated Farmers is assembling a "virtual farmy army" to support North Canterbury farmers hammered by this week's earthquakes.
Some dairy farmers in the South Island might have to dispose of their milk due to road closures and other issues.
Mid Canterbury farmers are on standby to take dairy cows from quake-affected North Canterbury dairy farmers.
Dairy goat farming is growing in popularity as farmers look to non-cow options for milking platforms around the country. Globally
Several dairy sheds near Culverden have been damaged by this morning's quake, leaving farmers unable to milk their cows. Sam Smith
Alan Lai's Agria Corp plans to appeal against a decision by the NYSE to delist the company's American Depository Shares.
Property and farming rich listers are among those who have made big donations to National over the past year.
Not many Kiwis may be satisfied by the Auditor General's report into the propriety of the Government's gift of a sheep-breeding establishment to a breeder in Saudi Arabia.
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Economists went back to the drawing board to revise up their farmgate milk price forecasts.
Distressing footage of a cow being suspended from a tractor by hip clamps has been released by Farmwatch.
At the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction the key whole milk powder price went up nearly 20 per cent.
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The chairman of the Bay of Plenty Regional Council Doug Leeder explains that the water quality issue is a problem everybody needs to get their heads around, whether they live in a rural or urban environment. Made with funding from NZ On Air.