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Southern Pastures shortlisted at World Sustainability Awards 2022

London, July 22, 2022: The shortlist of the World Sustainability Awards has been announced featuring 80 best in class initiatives, leaders and businesses. Cross-functional impact is recognised across 11 categories, from Carbon Reduction and Sustainable Technology to embedding Diversity and Inclusion practices. A rigorous judging

Allan Barber reports on work within some key innovative partnerships

Dairy farming company Southern Pastures recognises the importance of managing its business with careful consideration for animal welfare, environmental footprint, and productivity. The company is working closely with LIC and Rissington to identify the right beef genetics in combination with technologies such as sexed semen
Lewis Road Matariki

Horopito stars in Matariki milk

Lewis Road Creamery has partnered with Pouarua Farms to produce a winter spice milk infused with horopito for Matariki, in a product development that is purely for celebration not for profit. Pouarua Farms are jointly owned by Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Paoa, Ngāti Tamaterā, Ngāti Tara

Why food producers must stay focused on climate change

From foodticker.co.nz The disruption and uncertainty caused by Covid-19 have certainly not evaporated, even though we may be starting to live less restricted lives. Further darkening the cloud of Covid and inflationary pressures on our economy, we now have the Russia-Ukraine war with its terrible
Lewis Road Creamery salted butter

Premium Lewis Road Creamery export butter now on NZ shelves

Premium butter made from Lewis Road's parent Southern Pastures' cream, and sold under the Lewis Road Creamery brand, will now be available to New Zealanders. In 2020, the butter became the first, and remains the only, New Zealand dairy product to be stocked US-wide by Whole Foods.
cows on a Southern Pastures NZ GMO-Free dairy farm

It makes business sense to be GMO-free

This piece first appeared on stuff.co.nz Are we on the brink of doing the wrong thing for all the right reasons? I fear that there is an alliance developing, almost by stealth, that will foist genetically modified organisms (GMO) on New Zealand. The impetus appears