Fonterra today announced an opening forecast payout for the 2010/11 season of $6.90-$7.10 and said the full payout for the season might top $8.00.

The qualities that helped Craig Norgate reshape New Zealand's rural landscape have contributed to his undoing.

Sir Henry van der Heyden has urged dairy farmers to shore up their businesses against possible future volatility.

Farmers' economic confidence improved in the first months of 2010, boosted by sheep and beef prices.

Fonterra has announced it is increasing its forecast milk price payout by 40 cents, to $6.10 per kg.

Fran O'Sullivan notes a contradiction emerging in the utterings of Fonterra on the one hand, and Federated Farmers on the other.

The grocery industry, lest we forget, is basically trench warfare, Tim Morris insists.

In 2001, Consumers Institute head David Russell warned food prices were likely to rise once the supermarket industry shrank from three big players to two.

Investors over the age of about 35 may remember a non-alcoholic whiskey called Claytons.

New Zealanders often respond with dismay when news breaks of another local manufacturer moving overseas.