Fonterra will put in the bulk of shares required for the Fonterra Shareholders' Fund following a muted response from its farmer members.

A new giant Asian free trade negotiation was launched last night (NZ time) at the end of the East Asia Summit in Cambodia, with a goal to complete the deal by the end of 2015.

Prices of dairy products rose in the latest online dairy auction, the third straight gain.

Prime Minister John Key had an informal discussion with US President Barack Obama in Phnom Penh this morning and the issue of Kim Dotcom appears to have been discussed.

Government-funded rewards - including tax breaks and grants - could encourage high-performing companies to stay in this country.

United States President Barack Obama will open Trans-Pacific Partnership talks in Cambodia while new negotiations offer up India, Japan and South Korea.

Farmers, industries and other large users may be charged for water under a new policy being developed, Finance Minister Bill English has indicated.

Exporters' lobby group calls for increasing population through immigration and developing bigger companies.

Chinese interest in investing in Fonterra's Cooperative Group's shareholder fund was predictable, says the main farm lobby group.

See a replay of our live chat with ANZ rural economist Con Williams on Fonterra's TAF scheme and the dairy industry.

Fonterra has signed an agreement to develop two more large-scale dairy farms in China.

British butchers should sell New Zealand lamb rather than local lamb to combat global warming, a study claims.

The implication that the US is using the TPP as a bayonet to thrust at the Chinese is far from the only thing that should bother us, writes Toby Manhire.

New Zealand wine makers have taken a major step in their efforts to build a presence in Asia.