Primary Sector
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Fonterra farmers to wait till after AGM for council pitch
Fonterra shareholders will be pitched some ideas as to how their shareholders' council should look, including options for constitutional and operational changes, during the next round of consultation due to start in September.Following a damning in-house first review of the p...
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Law & Regulation
Govt may act on too many farm-forestry conversions
If the amount of farmland being converted to forestry each year exceeds 40,000 hectares, the government would look to intervene, Minister of Agriculture Damien O’Connor told Parliament's primary production select committee today. Increased forestry is a key government policy,...
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Fonterra CEO says no timeframe for decisions on capital structure
Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell said no decisions have been made about the dairy cooperative’s capital structure and he does not have a timeframe for a review underway. “There is a small team working on it now, internally. No decisions have been made, a number of optio...
Coronavirus
High-value agri airfreight exports fall 5% - MPI
Airfreight exports of perishable and high-value live products fell 5 percent in the first three months of the year, as US sales growth wasn't enough to offset declines in New Zealand's biggest markets of Australia and China. The Ministry for Primary Industries' economic update...
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