Agribusiness
Extreme floods and heat in China ravage farms and kill animals
NY Times: Bad weather puts security of food supply in focus in China.
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Mixed note for dairy prices to start new season
Whole milk powder prices dropped at the first GDT auction for the 2023/24 season.
Bruised, battered but still bold: Zespri’s hopes for kiwifruit industry after economic storm
Many growers in the sweetheart export sector are 'under severe financial stress'.
Business leaders named in King's Birthday Honours
Vegetable-growing, IT, a four-day week, journalism: honours for leaders in their fields.
A 2023/24 milk price of $8/kg will be a pinch for farmers
Fonterra's "mid-point" forecast of $8/kg will be close to break-even for farmers.
Fonterra: $100m in carbon credit costs could help pay for clean energy
Fonterra says it will be a decade before it will abandon coal altogether.
Cyclone aftermath a severe financial hit to T&G
Fruit grower T&G Global said Cyclone Gabrielle would hit its annual profit hard.
RBNZ says falling dairy prices, rising costs, are eating into farm profits
Increasing farm debt servicing costs also singled out as a concern.
Business backing huge solar farm fails, creditors want $12.3m
Council said the venture supported its aspirations. Now, it is a creditor.
Central Otago vineyard: What went wrong, why IRD called liquidators
IRD wants $40,000, other creditors claim $97,000 from pinot noir specialist.
Does 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.
Smart cow start-up Halter raises $85m, reveals early uptake
Rocket Lab link helps bolster the Auckland/Waikato start-up.
China's Westland Milk posts $120m profit turnaround
Company hits billion-dollar revenue mark for the first time.
Soaring on-farm inflation will gobble farmer rewards from Fonterra's half year
Boat showrooms can stand down, soaring on-farm costs got to the money first.
How Fonterra plans to turn this year's challenges into opportunities: chairman
Inflation, sustainability, R&D and China high on board's menu.
‘Never seen rain like that’: Farmers assess damage, tonnes of crops possibly obliterated
After an already tough summer, major farming and growing regions assessing new damage.
Rebuilding Better: What will NZ agriculture will look like, beyond commodities cycle?
What is New Zealand agriculture going to look like in the decades ahead?
Global egg shortage: Bird flu, production costs leave shelves bare
NY Times: A perfect storm has hit the poultry sector, leaving supermarket shelves bare.
From 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?
Not egg-xactly an NZ problem: Egg shortage strikes America too
Egg pandemonium partly due to changing dietary habits.
Kiwis buying chickens amid egg shortage crisis
Interest in online auctions for chickens has more than doubled after cage ban.
Pavlova and biscuits at risk as prices rise
Commercial bakers are feeling the heat as egg shortage drives up wholesale prices.
NZ dairy prices should pick up late this year, big bank predicts
Where one country goes, global dairy prices follow.
Regional 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'?
Govt’s new $2000 broadband installation grant for rural homes - Starlink will be eligible
New $15m scheme will cover about 7500 remote households.
Fonterra’s Miles Hurrell ‘not too concerned’ about China
Demand for dairy in China has declined over the last year or so.
Fraudster accountant again convicted of fraud
Disgraced former accountant fails to in bid suppress his second fraud conviction.
Danone flicks the switch on $30m biomass boiler for Balclutha dairy plant
Group says it is NZ’s first dairy spray drying plant powered exclusively by biomass fuel.
Editorial: Fonterra at the crossroads but no let-up for consumers
Editorial: Looking at the future of dairy throws up good and bad outcomes.