Fonterra's milk production is close to hitting its seasonal peak.

Farm prices are falling, but spring and a slow turnaround in the dairy industry is boosting morale.

It was a big call for Chinese billionaire Jiang Zhaobai to seek a judicial review of the NZ Government's decision to veto a $88 million bid by one of his companies to buy Lochinver station.

Silver Fern Farms shareholders have voted strongly in favour of a 50/50 joint venture with China's Shanghai Maling Aquarius

US interests were the biggest foreign investors in New Zealand dairy land in 2013 and 2014, followed by China, according to a report by KPMG.

New Zealand consumer confidence rose for a second month after hitting a three-year low in August.

The Chinese company behind a bid to buy Lochinver Station is going to court to challenge the Government's decision to block the sale.

Fonterra chairman John Wilson has hit back at attempts by former directors to trim the size of the board.

A businessman, 60, is alleged to have acted alone in blackmail scare that said infant formula would be poisoned.

Fonterra has named six candidates for its board at next month's election and pressure has emerged to reduce the number of directors.

Dairy farming was initially rated as one of the highest-risk industries during health and safety reforms before the Labour Minister, Michael Woodhouse, intervened and changed the criteria, documents show.

Food researchers have been granted $10.9 million under a new Government scheme designed to encourage scientific brilliance and boost exports.

Trial runs for a new online platform designed to provide an electronic global marketplace for day-to-day trading of dairy products are set to take place over the next few months, according to its backers.

Silver Fern Farms chairman Rob Hewett said the board remained convinced that a joint venture proposal from Shanghai Maling Aquarius was the best choice.

State owned farmer Landcorp says it supports an alternative recapitalisation plan for the giant meat company.

Most people will be more than aware that, like all public relations campaigns, this one will not reveal the full picture.

It may be difficult at first for observers to grasp the magnitude of what has happened with the trade liberalisation deal just reached in the TPP.

A group of Silver Fern Farms shareholders who oppose the company's proposed joint venture with Shanghai Maling Aquarius say their offer of a $90 million alternative capital raising proposal remains a live issue just days before the deal goes to the vote.

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The agreement provides for the complete elimination of tariffs on New Zealand's exports to TPP nations, but with only partial liberalisation of the dairy trade.

The TPP could be improved after a few years, Trade Minister Tim Groser has said, acknowledging NZ lost against powerful forces that limited dairy sector rewards.

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The TPP outcome differs from what its opponents had predicted, says lobbyist Charles Finny.

New Zealand and 11 other countries strike Pacific trade pact - a deal that will affect 40 per cent of world's economy.