UE e Brasil tentam ampliar parcerias para agricultura de baixo carbono

A Low Carbon Business Action Brazil, uma iniciativa de União Europeia para estreitar parcerias para uma agricultura de baixo carbono, realiza até amanhã, em Ribeirão Preto, encontros entre companhias agrícolas europeias e brasileiras para estreitar parcerias de cooperação e transferência tecnológica.

Positive news for dairy farmers following latest rise in world prices

The latest rise in world dairy prices of 3.6 per cent was positive and added stability to the industry as farmers geared up for winter, Federated Farmers says. Slightly against expectations, prices lifted at the Global Dairy Trade auction overnight, with New Zealand’s major export commodity, whole milk powder, receiving a boost of 5.2 per […]

Fonterra in urgent pricing talks with dairy farmers

Dairy giant Fonterra Australia will hold an urgent meeting with its milk farmers today, to address the financial ramifications on its own coffers of the decision by rival processor Murray Goulburn to scrap its attempted clawback of $183 million in milk price “overpayments” from farmers. Fonterra chief executive Rene Dedoncker has summonsed directors of its […]

Dairy industry trying several ways to secure foreign workers

Enrique Correal knows the anxiety that foreign workers go through when they hear about deportation and new immigration policies coming out of Washington, D.C. Correal is from Colombia, but he has been working in the U.S. for eight years. He currently is based in Sioux Falls with Alta Genetics, working as a reproduction specialist who […]