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Scott St John will step down from the Fonterra board, effective from March next year. He has been an independent director of the co-op for seven years and is leaving due to workload and governance commitments. He was appointed to the Fonterra board in 2016 and is...

A big celebration for the Dairy Women’s Network in Waikato today as the organisation turns 25. DWN’s mission is to foster education, connection and leadership opportunities within the dairy sector and the quarter-century milestone was one of a number of events around...

Snack-sized apple business Rockit Global is expanding into the South Island to build its growing base. The Hastings company has combined with the Turley family in South Canterbury’s Rangitata to put in an initial 20-hectare orchard, expanding to 100ha over the next...

Newly minted Agriculture and Trade Minister Todd McClay plans to visit India in the next fortnight, his first trade mission since the formation of the Government. He told the US Business Summit in Auckland today that a free trade deal with India is unfinished business...

A $600 million solar farm planned for the Mackenzie Basin will power up to 100,000 homes. Far North Solar Farms Ltd has applied to build a 420MW solar farm — believed to the biggest in the country about 8km east of Twizel. Director Richard Homewood says the farm is in...

National rural retailer Farmlands is continuing to reconfigure its business and will go as hard as it can on implementation over the next year or two says chair Rob Hewitt. He says it is imperative that it is done even though the current downturn in farming is flowing...

Herd Improvement company LIC is paying out more than $2 million in compensation for supplying some dairy farmers bad sire semen. LIC chief executive David Chin apologised to farmers during a webinar , adding that the farmer-owned co-op has not lived up to the high...

Alliance Group is rolling-out cutting-edge AI technology designed to identify eating quality in beef and lamb. The company is partnering with Australian agtech solutions provider MEQ to deploy lamb and beef probes powered by sophisticated machine learning and...

This week Federated Farmers’ National Council is meeting. The Council includes all of the provincial presidents and Feds staff and is a twice yearly event to work out budgets and strategies for the lobby group. Federated Farmers Vice President Colin Hurst has come out...