25 Aug 2025

Expert Feature: Dairy Economics

From Afternoons, 2:35 pm on 25 August 2025

We thought it was time for a deep dive into our dairy industry. 

The dairy industry has been dominating headlines recently .. with Fonterra selling off Anchor, Mainland and Kāpiti to French food giant Lactalis last week, and it seems everyone is talking about the skyrocketing price of butter 

To answer all your dairy industry related questions Jesse is joined by Dairy sector commentator and General Manager of Agri-Women's Development Trust, Julia Jones.

Friesian cows ready for milking in a herringbone dairy shed

Friesian cows ready for milking in a herringbone dairy shed Photo: RNZ/Sally Round