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Fonterra 'on track' to hit payout

Fonterra chief financial officer Lukas Paravicini rejects the notion that the co-operative is playing safe in keeping this season's farm gate milk price forecast at $4.70 a kilogram of milksolids.

Fonterra sticks with farmer payout

Forecast brighter for Fonterra

Fonterra's board will have reason for cautious optimism when it meets tomorrow to review its farmgate milk price forecast for 2014/15.

High country's 'jewel' for sale

The historic Craigieburn Station, in the central Canterbury foothills, has come up for sale for the first time in 98 years.

Records sought on Crafar bidder

Authorities managing the bankruptcy estate of a businesswoman facing bribery charges in Hong Kong have gone to the High Court to get access to records held by an Auckland law firm.

Dairy prices surge at latest auction

Dairy prices posted their fifth consecutive gain at this morning’s GlobalDairyTrade auction.

Bank settlements top $24m

A probe into how three banks marketed interest rate swaps to farmers will see up to $24.2 million go back to rural customers and their communities, with Westpac following ANZ and ASB and settling with the Commerce Commission.

LIC aims for $1 billion revenue

Livestock Improvement Corp will set off on a "roadshow" in June to sound out its farmer-shareholders about the possibility of raising capital to drive growth.

Economics of cow barns clear as mud

The jury is still out on the feasibility of cow barns for New Zealand farming, according to a DairyNZ study.

Good forecast unwelcome news to some

While a prediction of sunny weather for the rest of the month will be good news to sunseekers, it's unlikely to be welcomed by those suffering from dry conditions.

Sam Judd: Bill Gates drinks from poop

Dairy prices bouncing back

Prices surge at latest dairy auction

Dairy prices spiked higher at this morning's GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction, the GDT price index gaining 9.4 per cent since the last sale on January 21.

Farms remain deadliest work sites

Thirty-seven workers were killed on the job in the last financial year and the agricultural industry was deemed to be the deadliest.

Big drought - whole nation at risk

Rain forecast for this week is unlikely to offset a soil-parching big dry that has put much of the country at serious fire risk and begun to hurt farmers in hot-spot areas.

Sam Judd: Carbon crop crisis

Farmers fear rough ride coming up

Farmers are "battening down the hatches" as they prepare for a low dairy payout this year and as a full-scale drought approaches South Canterbury and North Otago.

Farmers prepare for the big dry

As hot, dry weather threatens to create a drought, farmers are preparing for the worst.