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Heard about the price of tomatoes? The cost of the juicy red ones has shot through the roof lately, what with the high New Zealand Dollar and the disasterous Queensland floods. But that hasn’t counted against Ben Smith, a tomato grower from Pukekohe, who was crowned Young Grower of the Year, at the HortNZ Annual Conference, earlier this week. Reporter Emma Jones met Ben, in a glasshouse, somewhere south of Auckland...

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The European Union has agreed to up the quota for grain-fed quality beef. Under the new agreement, forged by the Government and Beef + Lamb New Zealand, the current quota of around 13,000 tonnes, or just three per cent of total beef exports, quadruples to 45,000 tonnes in 2012. All of it tariff free.

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Fonterra says a report it has published into New Zealand’s domestic dairy industry, is proof  that the regulations are working. Fonterra’s chief financial officer Jonathon Mason, says the report was compiled by independent analysts, and shows competition has thrived here since 2001, when the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act came into play. Further, the report says the way Fonterra calculates its milk price model is fair. But at the same time Mr Mason admits that, going forward, Fonterra has to become more transparent. Benedict Collins has this report...

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The author of a Fonterra-funded report into the dairy sector has defended his work in the face of criticism from New Zealand’s independent processors.

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Having lost more than 1000 jobs in the wood processing industry since 2008, The National Distribution Union is sighing with relief, with the announcement of a proposal to build a new forest waste processing facility near Rotorua.

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Questions are being raised about the accuracy of a Fonterra-commissioned report which the dairy giant says is evidence independent processors, and Kiwi consumers, aren’t paying too much for their milk.

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Ben Smith a tomato grower from Pukekohe, has been named Young Grower of the Year.

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New Zealand’s trade surplus for June was a record $230million. According to Statistics New Zealand, figure show a 4.5 per cent increase in the value of New Zealand exports to $12.2 billion in the three months to the end of June.

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New Zealand’s official cowbassador, Rosie the Cow, may soon be appearing at a school near you. Dairy NZ’s is stepping up its efforts to get all of New Zealand to understand the role the dairying sector plays, by heading into the country’s classrooms

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The Business Roundtable has come out in support of the Turners and Growers argument against Zespri, saying it is high time there was deregulation in the kiwifruit export market.

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