Equiping you with the information needed to support our Fonterra farmers and their businesses.

We have numerous digital apps, online tools and services to assist you with the management of your Fonterra farming client's accounts.

Here you’ll find information to help you support your farmers and clients, and processes and documentation to supply Fonterra.

Here you will find information for assisting Fonterra farmers with their Animal Wellbeing Plans.

We'll keep this page updated on a regular basis with postings of Rural Professional webinar recordings and explainer videos on topical matters, like Flexible Shareholding.

If you have any ideas or if you have any thoughts about topics for future webinars, please email rural.professionals@fonterra.com.

Rural Professionals Webinar

25 August 2025

CFO Andrew Murray and Programme Manager for Mergers and Acquisitions Selena Robb answer questions around the proposed divestment.

Price Risk Management Services Webinar

26 May 2025 - Listen to this Price Risk Management webinar hosted by Milk Supply Director Lisa Payne alongside members of the Co-op’s trading team. Details about the new services launching in June, how they work & how farmers can apply for them.

New incentives webinar

21 February 2025 - This webinar rural professionals a chance to hear more about the new customer-funded incentives and updates to the Co-operative Difference that will come into effect for the 2025/26 season. Presenters included Anne Douglas, Michael Hide, Chris Appleby, Talia Grala and Nuala Platts.

On-Farm Efficiency: Focus on Feed

10 December 2024 - Practical ways for farmers to make efficiency gains that benefit their farm’s bottom line, We will focus on the efficiency opportunities that exist in Feed – using real farm examples. Plus, we’ll give you an update on how we’re tracking one year on from the emissions announcement.

Farm Insights Report

This webinar gave RPs an opportunity to hear more about our latest Farm Insights Reports, which benchmark farm performance and highlight any opportunities to fine-tune efficiencies on farm for better productivity, profitability, and sustainability.

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Capital Structure

This webinar provides RPs with an overview of the key changes to the capital structure, highlights flexible shareholding (and its significance for farmers affected by cyclone Gabriel) and discusses the role of RPs in supporting their farmers.

October 2025

Join the Fonterra team for key updates on Farm Insights Reports, On Farm Solutions, Animal Wellbeing Plans, Farm Dairy Records and team changes.

March 2025

Join the Fonterra Animals team for an update around Co-operative Difference, Efficiency Visits, the On Farm Solutions as part of Co-operative Difference, Profitability benchmarking, Herd Improvement focus, Animal Wellbeing Plan Changes, Cattle drench resistance, and other valuable updates.

November 2024

Fonterra Webinar for vets covering Fonterra project updates, Johne’s, weighing heifers and future herd improvement strategy.

September 2024

Fonterra Webinar for vets covering FEI, Updates to the Farm Insights Report, Efficiency Visits, The Tools and Service Pilot and Fonterra guidance for Animal Wellbeing Plans.

A Farmer's Journey to Efficiency - Veterinary Webinar

Veterinarians play an important role in supporting their farmers to reduce emissions on farm through improvements in animal efficiency. While much work by vets and farmers has already been happening on farm to improve animal efficiency for some time, we need to shift the dial more quickly, as the focus on emissions increases globally. This webinar covers the first half of our recent vet roadshow content, looking at the what, why and how of emissions and on farm efficiency. It looks at the role of vets, and how vet are well placed with existing tools and knowledge to add huge value to their farmers in this space. 

The Co-operative Difference - Animal Wellbeing Plans

Veterinarians are an essential partner in helping farmers achieve The Co-operative Difference through development and implementation of an Animal Wellbeing Plan. This is a recording of our online webinar session held in February 2022 with Fonterra vets Mike Shallcrass and Ash Keown.

ZincCheck - Introduction for Vets

ZincCheck by Farm Source is an exclusive service for Fonterra Suppliers that uses your bulk milk sample to check your herd's zinc levels over multiple days, giving you confidence that your zinc dosing is effective.

ZincCheck - Effective On-Farm Investigations

Following our webinar introducing Fonterra’s ZincCheck testing, veterinarians told us they were really keen to learn additional tips on how to conduct effective on-farm zinc supplementation investigations.

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