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Milk solid prices 'far below fair'

Current dairy commodity prices are now well below "fair" expectations of price among global dairy producers, says Fonterra's chief executive Theo Spierings.

Eric Watson: Look beyond the milk shed

NZ has led the world developing technologies to maximise output from our limited land resources, but it's reaching the geoclimatic and biological limits of its "pasture-based" model.

$150m cost to Fonterra

The head of Fonterra says the growing Ebola epidemic could cost the company $150 million.

Fran O'Sullivan: Key catches drift on waterways

The Prime Minister has finally acknowledged the political reality that there are limits to growth as his Government takes a tentative step towards ensuring dairy effluent doesn't continue to despoil our major waterways.

Editorial: Govt opts for caution and stability

The most notable item in the Government's third term agenda outlined to Parliament yesterday is an intention to hold "job fairs" in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane aimed at New Zealand....

China trade needs more than logs and milk

Two-way trade with China has doubled every five years since the early 1990s but the historic growth rates may not continue.

Dairy prices level off at latest auction

World dairy prices showed signs of levelling off today with the GlobalDairyTrade price index gaining 1.4 per cent at the fortnightly auction.

Danone says long wait 'injustice'

Danone Asia Pacific Holdings, the local unit of the French food company, argued in the Court of Appeal it was an injustice for it to have to wait potentially until 2018 for legal action against Fonterra.

Brian Fallow: Gazing into dairy's future

Jamie Gray: Tatua outperforms Fonterra

Tatua, the small Waikato-based dairy co-operative, did well over the 2014/15 dairy season while its far bigger competitor, Fonterra, did not. The reason - powder.

Liam Dann: How's the economy? You choose.

Liam Dann offers up five reasons for economic gloom and five reasons for cheer.

Brian Gaynor: Fonterra must boost consumer products

Uni considers rejecting dairy funding

Research funding from the dairying and soft drink industries could be declined on ethical grounds under proposals being worked through by the University of Canterbury.

Raw milk fulfils pair's dream

Fonterra forecasts price drop

Dairy farmers face a year of serious belt-tightening if Fonterra's latest milkprice forecast of $5.30 per kg of milksolids comes to pass, agricultural commentators said.

Fonterra cuts milk payout

Fonterra has just announced a cut to its forecast farmer payout - from $5.30 a kg of milksolids - down from $6.00.

Fonterra earnings tipped at lower end of forecast

Fonterra is expected to reveal operating earnings at the lower end of an already published forecast range for the year to July 31 when it reports its result tomorrow.

Synlait profit up 70pc to $19.6m