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Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited is a New Zealand multinational publicly traded dairy co-operative owned by New Zealand farmers. [8] The company is responsible for approximately 30% of the world's dairy exports [9] and with revenue exceeding NZ $22 billion, [10] making it New Zealand's largest company.
The group has also sought to oppose or revise freshwater, indigenous biodiversity, climate change, pastoral land reform policies, and the Three Waters reform programme affecting farmers and rural communities [1] [2] On 16 July 2021, Groundswell NZ staged a nationwide Howl of a Protest campaign in between 47 and 57 cities and towns throughout ...
New Zealand's telephone numbering plan divides the country into a large number of local calling areas. When dialling, if you wish to call a person in another local calling area, you must dial the trunk prefix followed by the area code. Below is a list of New Zealand local calling areas.
A station or run, in the context of New Zealand agriculture, is a large farm dedicated to the grazing of sheep and cattle. The use of the word for the farm or farm buildings date back to the mid-nineteenth century. [1] The owner of a station is called a runholder.
New Zealand is the largest exporter of farmed venison in the world. [40] In the 1970s and 80s there was a huge industry carrying out live deer recovery from forested areas of New Zealand. The deer are a pest animal that has a negative impact on the biodiversity of New Zealand. The deer-farm stock was bred from the recovered wild animals.
In the 2019–20 season, New Zealand produced 21.1 billion litres (4.6 × 10 9 imp gal; 5.6 × 10 9 US gal) of raw milk containing 1.9 million tonnes of milk solids (protein and milkfat). This makes the country the world's seventh-largest milk producer, with about 3% of world production in the 2016/17 dairy season.
Landcorp Farming Limited ("Landcorp") is a state-owned enterprise of the New Zealand government.Its brand name is Pāmu, the Māori language word for 'to farm'. Its core business is pastoral farming including dairy, sheep, beef and deer, as well as a foods business marketing milk and meat products globally under the Pāmu brand and as a supplier to other food processors.
New Zealand landline phone numbers have a total of eight digits, excluding the leading 0: a one-digit area code, and a seven-digit phone number (e.g. 09 700 1234), beginning with a digit between 2 and 9 (but excluding 900, 911, and 999 due to misdial guards). There are five regional area codes: 3, 4, 6, 7, and 9.