In parts of the United States, milk is more expensive than gasoline. Fonterra has formed a partnership with Dairy Farmers of America, the largest farmer-owned dairy cooperative in the United States. This enables them to source milk and dairy products from multiple locations around the world, in order to cope with demand.
Year ended June 2008 export volume 128,040 tonnes, value NZ$775* million
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New Zealand exports to Cuba are driven by the Cuban Government’s social policy of providing each child under four with a litre of milk every day.
Year ended June 2008 export volume 25,177 tonnes, value NZ$155* million
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Fonterra has a joint venture with Nestle, sourcing fresh milk from South America with ingredients from New Zealand, to distribute its products throughout the Americas.
Year ended June 2008 Export volume 120,822 tonnes, value NZ$695* million (Venezuela alone accounted for $618* million)
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Scientists from New Zealand, Germany and Spain collaborated to develop technology that allows genetic information from microbes in cows’ stomachs to be isolated, to be used in many possible biotechnological applications.
Germany Year ended June, 2008 export volume 11,415 tonnes, value FOB$126 million
Spain Year ended June 2008 export volume 303 tonnes, value NZ$1.5* million
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New Zealand exports the equivalent of over 17 million 1kg blocks of cheese to the U.K. every year. A New Zealand vintage cheddar cheese produced in Waitoa, won a prestigious award in the UK. It beat out 1620 other cheeses to win the Past Masters class of the Nantwich International Cheese Show in 2003.
Year Ended June 2008 Export volume 8,484 tonnes, value NZ$46* million
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Scientists from New Zealand, Germany and Spain collaborated to develop technology that allows genetic information from microbes in cows’ stomachs to be isolated, to be used in many possible biotechnological applications.
Germany Year ended June, 2008 export volume 11,415 tonnes, value FOB$126 million
Spain Year ended June 2008 export volume 303 tonnes, value NZ$1.5* million
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New Zealand farmers travelled to Uganda to set up a rotational grazing system using Kiwi-made electric fencing technology for an agricultural school. The programme was designed to provide impoverished Ugandans with dairy heifers for milk production.
2007 export volume 16 tonnes, value NZ$55,607*
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China’s increased demand for dairy products has seen it grow to become the world’s biggest importer of milk products. Because New Zealand dairy cows are among the most efficient and fertile in the world, farmers have been purchasing livestock from New Zealand in order to meet demand. In a year New Zealand exported around 70,000 cows to South East Asia, Latin America and China
Year ended June 2008 Export volume 78,648 tonnes, value NZ$427* million
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Fonterra’s Australia-New Zealand innovation team, based in Melbourne, breaks down the active components of dairy to develop innovative new consumer products such as Mainland Butter Infusions and Mainland Munchable Protein Bars.
Year Ended June 2008 Export volume 94,076 tonnes, value NZ$453* million
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The Tatua Co-operative Dairy Company is the only manufacturer of aerosol cream in the Southern Hemisphere with its aerosol whipped cream products being sold as far afield as South America, South East Asia and Australasia. It sells aerosol cream under its own brand Tatua™ Dairy Whip® Whipped Cream and contract manufacture aerosol cream for customers.
