Officials will look in the new year at whether recent changes to foreign investment rules for forestry need to be “tweaked” to deliver better land use outcomes, Forestry Minister Shane Jones says.Planting for expansion of the country’s forestry industry and as a carbon sink to he...
A multi-million dollar claim against Zespri has been hanging about too long and must go to trial next year, a High Court judge has ruled. This is despite the fact that the main witness for the company bringing the case, Shanghai Neuhof, remains in a Chinese jail. Justice Ed Wylie...
Fonterra Cooperative Group has all but taken over its Prolesur milk processing business in Chile, buying out its minority shareholder, Fundacion Isabel Aninat. The New Zealand cooperative paid $29.3 million for Fundacion’s 13.6 percent stake, meaning Fonterra now owns 99.9 per...
A specialist carbon forestry fund established by some of the country’s biggest emitters has bought its first property.Drylandcarbon has agreed to buy the 1,600-hectare Te Puna station near Wairoa. About two-thirds of the property – much of it steep and erosion-prone - will be pla...
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