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Dairy giant Fonterra will increase its online trading auction from once a month to twice from September in a bid to increase its customer base and be more transparent with its pricing, the company announced yesterday.
The globalDairyTrade platform was introduced in 2008 and has been successful with bidders. There are 280 [...]

Fonterra has announced that from September 2010 the globalDairyTrade trading manager, CRA International , will increase the frequency of trading events to twice a month. Kelvin Wickham, Fonterra Managing Director Global Trade, said the increase in frequency was a significant milestone that highlighted globalDairyTrade’s success as an online trading platform [...]

New Zealand’s Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world’s biggest dairy exporter, said international milk prices eased for the second month in a row at its latest auction, although the outlook for prices remained positive.
Fonterra said on Wednesday said its Global Dairy Trade-Trade Weighted Index at its latest Internet auction fell 3.5 percent, [...]

A project to grow algae on polluted lakes in Rotorua may improve the quality of waterways in the Bay of Plenty area.
The pilot project on Lake Rotoiti aims to harvest the algae so it can be turned into useful products, as well as cleaning up the lake.
Uses for algae include biofuels, animal or [...]

By ALAN KOZIARSKI
FOR the past 40 years the Singaporean government has advocated study hard, get ahead. And it has worked. Exceptionally. But in an economically and environmentally changing world, the government is now highlighting the importance of innovation, implementing a raft of programmes across universities and industries, including the [...]

Fonterra farmers waiting on their second-highest payout in the season just ending have been told their average cheque for next season may soar to record heights - around $1 million each - as the earnings available for payout surges to $8/kg of milksolids, or more.
The cooperative’s existing record amount available for payout [...]

Kota Kinabalu: Sabah could be at the forefront in supplying deep sea fish to the world because of its promising weather and warm waters.David Lyttle, the General Manager of Aquaculture from the Sealord Group Ltd of New Zealand, a deep sea fishing company, told Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman there is an increasing demand [...]

Prime Minister John Key’s announcement that science and innovation will be at the heart of next week’s Budget is a positive step forward, say business and manufacturing industry leaders, but the biggest challenge will be commercialising that research for the benefit of New Zealand.
Key announced that the upcoming Budget would focus on research and technology [...]

Research, Science and Technology will be a major recipient of funding with the Government pumping $225 million into the sector in next week’s budget.
Prime Minister John Key announced today $321m for new initiatives including $96m of reprioritised money over four years.
“The Government wants to establish a high-performing public science system which supports economic growth, and [...]

April 29 (BusinessWire) – New Zealand’s trade surplus widened in March, as the shipments of dairy products helped push the value of exports to more than $4 billion for only the second time on record.
The surplus was $567 million, up from a revised $335 million in February, according to Statistics New Zealand data, beating expectations [...]