NZ throws out the cream to make clean Aussie exit
By going down the value chain, Fonterra is turning dairy convention on its head.
By going down the value chain, Fonterra is turning dairy convention on its head.
The agribusiness has increased its capital expenditure target for a new oilseed crush facility to $500m, with the budget’s green fuels focus providing a boost.
Food makers could head the way of local car, textiles industries and shift overseas if profit shaming and cost pressures are not addressed, Mondelez Australia chief Darren O’Brien says.
Beef giant AACo has cooked up its second biggest profit ever, but all eyes remain on how billionaires Joe Lewis and Andrew Forrest may shape the future of the company.
A renowned Australian tea producer is focusing on its ‘health wellness infusion’ range as demand declines for the traditional ‘cuppa’.
Glencore has warned that scuttling its controversial carbon capture and storage project in the Great Artesian Basin would be the ‘death knell’ for onshore CCS.
The battle for control of Naomi Cotton is heating up after Olam Group, backed by Saudi Arabia’s PIF, raised its offer against the Abu Dhabi-backed Louis Dreyfus.
Beston Global Food Company’s debt has blown out to almost $70m, with the company, which has never turned a profit, owing NAB alone more than $55m.
China trade is a difficult maze to negotiate but as new normal emerges, has the federal Opposition learnt anything from the Morrison-era sanctions? The Nationals’ Kevin Hogan says yes.
Qantas Super is partnering privately owned agricultural investment company GO.FARM to transform under-utilised agricultural land in the NSW Riverina and northern Victoria.
Farmers aren’t paid enough for their produce while supermarkets use cheap vegetables as ‘clickbait’ to get shoppers through their doors, a Senate inquiry has heard.
In a letter to suppliers, a senior Coles executive has said the lowering of costs is a ‘joint obligation’, as supermarkets face political heat.
It’s a methodology which is yet to be fully embraced by even ardent proponents of climate action so can carbon capture be a win-win for farmers and industry?
Australia’s biggest grape growing region is on the brink of collapse, with growers demanding an immediate moratorium on all new plantings as grape prices plunge.
Labor is fighting its own ‘forest wars’, as rival policy groups clash over a push to abandon ‘gold standard’ forestry certification.
The Albanese government is under pressure to stop Tasmania logging native forests protected under Julia Gillard, as state Labor and key timber players refuse to back the Liberals’ harvesting expansion.
Tasmania’s Liberal Premier is vowing to boost timber supply by logging 40,000ha of protected native forests, wedging Labor for the March 23 state election.
Key Tasmanian forest industry figures are pushing a radical plan to allow logging of some of the state’s contentious forests in return for most being protected under Indigenous custodianship.
One of the country’s largest organic wineries has fallen into administration amid a deepening crisis facing Australian growers and wine producers.
A US agribusiness private equity giant is leading a consortium that plans to back the expansion of Australia’s largest fruit and vegetable company.
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