Dairy Exporter - September 2010
New Fonterra Shareholders' Council chairman Simon Couper
says he will be watching closely as the Trading Among Farmers initiative comes
into practice. His deputy Ian Brown is an Auckland boy who admits that, when he
started dairying, he didn't know what a co-op was.
Westland Milk Products is using a daily milk train to cart
Canterbury milk to Hokitika. It also has its eye on securing contract supply
from farmers on the Plains.
Fonterra chief executive Andrew Ferrier has detailed a mix
of positive and negative forces affecting payout prospects.
Small Waikato dairy company Tatua is starting work on the
biggest expansion plan in its 96-year history, worth $30m.
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