Online dairy sales gets some exposure from China and a glimpse of the value opportunities compared with the volume strategies of the past.
MPI stubs its toe over MPB again.
Commission releases draft report on Fonterra’s 2018/19 Milk Price Manual
The Commerce Commission today released its draft report on its annual review of Fonterra’s Milk Price Manual for the 2018/19 dairy season.
Fonterra revises milk forecast down
Fonterra suppliers have been dealt a blow with the co-operative revising its 2018-19 forecast farm-gate milk price from $6.75 to a range of $6.25-$6.50.
Financial blow for Fonterra farmers as expected income falls by up to $78,000
Fonterra farmers will be as much as $78,000 poorer this season than they expected following the latest drop in the farmgate milk price forecast.
Guy Trafford reviews and updates a series of changes affecting the dairy industry and how they will impact those affected
Fonterra appears to have finally caught up with what ‘pundits’ have been saying for some time now “The $6.75 forecast is too high”.
Fonterra set to lower 2018/19 milk price forecast
Fonterra is expected to downgrade its $7.00/kg milk price when it updates the forecast over the next few days.
Fonterra has destroyed shareholder value: farmers
Fonterra shareholders charge they’ve lost rather than made money.
Going sour: Why Fonterra is under attack as never before
As an old story tells it, the dairy industry tsars who wanted to create Fonterra rolled up to Helen Clark’s Government with the legislation already written by a law firm and the 2001 date by which they wanted it implemented.
Regulator says Fonterra's asset beta for calculating milk price 'not practically feasible'
The Commerce Commission says it is concerned that the ‘asset beta’ Fonterra Cooperative Group uses to determine the farmgate milk price is too low, meaning it ends up paying its farmers a higher price for their milk than would be warranted under the company’s enabling law.
Dairy industry review to tap public views before Christmas
The public consultation stage of the government’s review of legislation governing Fonterra and the $8 billion dairy industry is due to start in October.