AgribusinessFonterra: $100m in carbon credit costs could help pay for clean energyFonterra says it will be a decade before it will abandon coal altogether.24 May 05:00 AM
AgribusinessCyclone aftermath a severe financial hit to T&GFruit grower T&G Global said Cyclone Gabrielle would hit its annual profit hard.17 May 09:43 PM
PremiumPremiumAgribusinessRBNZ says falling dairy prices, rising costs, are eating into farm profitsIncreasing farm debt servicing costs also singled out as a concern.03 May 05:25 AM
PremiumPremiumAgribusinessBusiness backing huge solar farm fails, creditors want $12.3mCouncil said the venture supported its aspirations. Now, it is a creditor.12 Apr 05:27 AM
PremiumPremiumAgribusinessCentral Otago vineyard: What went wrong, why IRD called liquidatorsIRD wants $40,000, other creditors claim $97,000 from pinot noir specialist.06 Apr 05:00 PM
PremiumPremiumAgribusinessDoes the latest GDT auction mean the end for high milk prices?Next season's milk price may start with a seven in front of it.05 Apr 05:40 AM
PremiumPremiumAgribusinessSmart cow start-up Halter raises $85m, reveals early uptakeRocket Lab link helps bolster the Auckland/Waikato start-up.29 Mar 04:00 PM
PremiumPremiumAgribusinessChina's Westland Milk posts $120m profit turnaroundCompany hits billion-dollar revenue mark for the first time.22 Mar 04:00 PM
PremiumPremiumAgribusinessSoaring on-farm inflation will gobble farmer rewards from Fonterra's half yearBoat showrooms can stand down, soaring on-farm costs got to the money first.17 Mar 04:00 AM
PremiumPremiumAgribusinessHow Fonterra plans to turn this year's challenges into opportunities: chairmanInflation, sustainability, R&D and China high on board's menu.17 Feb 11:00 PM
PremiumPremiumAgribusiness‘Never seen rain like that’: Farmers assess damage, tonnes of crops possibly obliteratedAfter an already tough summer, major farming and growing regions assessing new damage.28 Jan 05:35 AM
PremiumPremiumAgribusinessRebuilding Better: What will NZ agriculture will look like, beyond commodities cycle?What is New Zealand agriculture going to look like in the decades ahead?19 Jan 04:00 PM
PremiumPremiumAgribusinessGlobal egg shortage: Bird flu, production costs leave shelves bareNY Times: A perfect storm has hit the poultry sector, leaving supermarket shelves bare.12 Jan 09:45 PM
PremiumPremiumAgribusinessFrom pig cell to fork: Does lab-grown meat pass the taste test?Times: 'Cellular meat’ may one day feed the world. But will we want to eat it?11 Jan 10:14 PM
AgribusinessNot egg-xactly an NZ problem: Egg shortage strikes America tooEgg pandemonium partly due to changing dietary habits.11 Jan 07:30 PM
AgribusinessKiwis buying chickens amid egg shortage crisisInterest in online auctions for chickens has more than doubled after cage ban.06 Jan 07:55 PM
AgribusinessPavlova and biscuits at risk as prices riseCommercial bakers are feeling the heat as egg shortage drives up wholesale prices.04 Jan 11:17 PM
PremiumPremiumAgribusinessNZ dairy prices should pick up late this year, big bank predictsWhere one country goes, global dairy prices follow.01 Jan 04:00 PM
AgribusinessRegional seasonal worker system defended after calls for 'complete overhaul'Is an urgent overhaul of the scheme needed or is it just 'a few bad apples'?18 Dec 04:00 PM
PremiumPremiumAgribusinessGovt’s new $2000 broadband installation grant for rural homes - Starlink will be eligibleNew $15m scheme will cover about 7500 remote households.01 Dec 11:51 PM
PremiumPremiumAgribusinessFonterra’s Miles Hurrell ‘not too concerned’ about ChinaDemand for dairy in China has declined over the last year or so.01 Dec 04:20 AM
PremiumPremiumAgribusinessFraudster accountant again convicted of fraudDisgraced former accountant fails to in bid suppress his second fraud conviction.25 Nov 04:24 AM
PremiumPremiumAgribusinessDanone flicks the switch on $30m biomass boiler for Balclutha dairy plantGroup says it is NZ’s first dairy spray drying plant powered exclusively by biomass fuel.25 Nov 04:22 AM
AgribusinessFonterra sells Chilean company SoproleIt will sell its stakes to Gloria Foods.18 Nov 04:15 AM
PremiumPremiumEditorialEditorial: Fonterra at the crossroads but no let-up for consumersEditorial: Looking at the future of dairy throws up good and bad outcomes.17 Nov 04:00 PM
PremiumPremiumAgribusinessEx-Fonterra '$43m man' to head European livestock feed companyTheo Spierings swaps consultancy for fulltime job in Netherlands.17 Nov 04:10 AM
PremiumPremiumAgribusinessWhat Xi Jinping’s re-election in China means for NZ IncWhat’s changed since Premier Xi Jinping was controversially voted in for a third term?11 Nov 04:00 PM
PremiumPremiumAgribusiness'Massive concern': Farm near Napier bought by Austrian company for forestry conversionOverseas Investment Office gives approval for the purchase near Puketapu.06 Nov 10:50 PM
AgribusinessRockit apples branching out to South IslandHastings is Rockit's home and that won't change.26 Oct 02:08 AM
PremiumPremiumAgribusinessProvincial job loss fears at 'under-utilised' Fonterra sites: unionFonterra needs Parliament's tick as it gears up for a shrinking national milk supply.20 Oct 04:22 AM
AgribusinessGold kiwifruit licence access relief for squeezed green fruit growersZespri gold fruit licence release for 2023 at lower end of range.19 Oct 09:01 PM
PremiumPremiumOpinionGraham Pinnell: One simple solution to farm emissions controversyThe obvious solution is to go back to where this all started.17 Oct 04:00 PM
PremiumPremiumOpinionSteven Joyce: Can't see the food for the treesGovt's bid to trim emissions will hit Kiwi farmers — but won't reduce climate change.14 Oct 04:00 PM
PremiumPremiumAgribusinessExplainer: What's changed? Why the rural uproar over farm emissions pricing schemeThere are only two areas of major difference but they might well be chasms.13 Oct 04:42 AM