NZ again seeking clarification from China after meat stalled on wharves
New Zealand officials are again seeking clarification from China after meat consignments were stalled on Chinese wharves for the second time in as many months. Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy,...
View ArticleMillions at stake in milk scare stoush
COLUMN - THE LAND and Alexander Speirs It’s high-stakes for Fonterra and its more than 10,000 farmer shareholders as the dairy cooperative tries to halt Danone’s multimillion-dollar action in the High...
View ArticleSmall and Independent it may be but Tatua is a big wheel
COLUMN - THE LAND and Alexander Speirs New Zealand’s oldest dairy co-op celebrated its centenary anniversary on Monday evening. Staunchly independent and refreshingly different, Tatua has evolved from...
View ArticleZespri faces flack from Chinese Customs crackdown on one of its four importers
The Ministry for Primary Industries and Zespri International, the world’s largest kiwifruit marketer, are monitoring reports that staff at a Chinese company that imports a number of New Zealand’s...
View ArticleSir Graeme funds professorial chair in global value chains and trade
Graeme Harrison, chairman of meat company Anzco Foods, is to fund a new professorial chair in global value chains and trade at Lincoln University, initially for a term of five years. The new position...
View ArticleLIC lifts first-half profit 10% on demand for dairy breeding technology
Livestock Improvement Corp, a farmer cooperative that sells bull semen and provides a dairy genetics database, posted a 10 percent gain in first-half profit on increased demand for its products and...
View ArticleNZ primary industry firms open Chinese marketing office
BusinessDesk A group of New Zealand primary sector firms has opened a joint marketing office in Shanghai, completing a three-year gestation to make life easier in breaking into the world’s second...
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ANZ helps forge agriculture links between Fieldays and Indian counterpart
NZ National Fieldays Society has signed an MOU with the Confederation of Indian Industry which is the organisation behind India’s largest agricultural technology trade event – Agro Tech. The MOU –...
View ArticleSeeka sees annual profit growth of up to 11%, planning for beefed-up capacity
Seeka Kiwifruit Industries, the country’s biggest kiwifruit grower, sees annual profit growth of up to 11 percent and is planning to expand its capacity in coming years as kiwifruit crops recover from...
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