Fonterra drops over half its organic milk suppliers

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:25p.m.

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Some organic dairy farmers say they feel let down by Fonterra after the company said it won't renew contracts with 80 of them.

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08 Sep 2011 01:19p.m.

Hugo wrote:

I have a brother in law who's a dairy farmer in Feilding that swears he makes more money by using new organic soil improvement methods than he ever did by nuking the soil with chemical fertilisers. By concentrating on looking after microbial activity in the soil his herd is healthier and his fertiliser bills almost non existent. His fertiliser sales reps can't explain why his soil tests are so good. His soil is alive once more and billions of microbes are his living factory under the ground producing all the nutrients his cows need. He concentrates on the right levelsof trace elements and organic fertilisers, and the rest is magic. 50 years of poor soil management and poisonous chemical ferts no longer. There is a new way forward using green technology.
I believe organic dairying can be more cost effective than conventional methods. Organic milk should be cheaper than standard!

27 Aug 2011 08:59a.m.

Mike wrote:

How about this Nick? All the non-productive people get taxed instead?

This backwards left idea that you tax the only part of NZ that is helping NZ survive a world recession is brainless. Cut out NZ farming and you would have beneficiaries not being able to afford alcohol, tabbaco, drugs, sky TV, and real starving in the streets - yet if what your asking for actually happened that is what you would have as NZ couldn't continue to pay for them.

Farming like all industry is facing toughing enviromental restrictions - thats progress. Yet for the talk about farms polluting, the worst pollution in NZ is from its cities - ie people, and regularly people collecting welfare. If your going to tax pollution creaters, best put a tax on welfare beneficaries as well as farmers. How about a carbon tax on people as when they breathe/fart they also create greenhouse gases. A poll tax on people for the nitrogen wastes - the left all want farmers taxed for nitrogen wastes from cows, so how about a tax on people too?

27 Aug 2011 06:42a.m.

Mr T wrote:

End of the day is that the government allowed a single entity monopolise the NZ dairy industry and now the whole of NZ are paying. And now they are in bed with the chinese, things will only get worse.