Farmers not equal to shareholders, court hears
The farmers ended up supplying Fonterra after it bought a failed Canterbury dairy business out of receivership.
The farmers ended up supplying Fonterra after it bought a failed Canterbury dairy business out of receivership.
Watch: A primary school north of Auckland has seen its roll surge in recent weeks with the opening of an unusual daycare.
Five-hundred cows stolen from a mid-Canterbury dairy farm were probably rustled over a period of months, police believe.
Report predicts agricultural robotics industry will grow by $7 billion in just six years
Watch NZH Focus: Tristram Clayton talks with Herald Business Reporter Jamie Gray on the upward trend of world dairy prices.
World dairy prices put on their third significant gain in a row at the latest GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction overnight.
The price of whole milk powder may rise for the fourth straight auction on the GlobalDairyTrade platform next week.
Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings' challenge 'build windmills not walls' is galvanising the dairy co-operative.
Westpac's Karen Silk says the bank is confident the problems facing NZ dairy farmers are cyclical.
News agency Bloomberg has taken a close look at Fonterra - see what it's telling the world about our dairy giant.
The Taranaki farmers bought controversial interest rate swaps from the bank.
The futures market suggests an earnings upgrade might be on the way for Fonterra's farmers.
Farming, conservation and tourism need to go hand in hand for New Zealand's future, Whakahoro farmer and entrepreneur Dan Steele says. He
China's imports of dairy products jumped 26 percent in the 12 months ended June 30.
Farmers have seen two successive seasons of sub-par milk prices and the signs so far have pointed to a third.
Has dairy turned the corner? Latest price 'couldn't come at a better time'.
A strong lift in whole milk powder prices is expected at tomorrow morning's GlobalDairyTrade auction.
Synlait Milk says its annual profit more than doubled on sales of higher-margin products.
Economists say Landcorp's decision to stop using palm kernel expeller (PKE) as a supplementary feed is a sign of things to come.
Weaning animals from antibiotics in favor of vaccines has become central as resistant superbugs become more prevalent in public spaces.
New Zealand's biggest farming company will stop using the controversial feed supplement by June next year.
A new software system is promising to address farming productivity issues, hoping to make life - and work - easier for farmers.
Increasingly worried pea crop farmers have been given alternatives to help escape the "crisis" brought on by the discovery of the pea weevil in Wairarapa.
A former contract milker who rammed a difficult dairy cow with a quad bike is banned from the dairy industry for 12 months.
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World dairy prices have shot higher at the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, with the GDT price index gaining 6.6pc.
Not many bosses would arrange for nurses, budget advisors and the IRD to come and talk to you about child support. But husband and
Fonterra's infant formula sales in China are running ahead of its expectations, chairman John Wilson says.
Documents reveal Murray McCully met the businessman behind a controversial farm deal while in Saudi Arabia - despite his office saying he had no plans for such a meeting.
Fonterra will update its farmgate milk price and reveal earnings per share forecasts for 2016/17 on Monday.