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We have put together guidance notes to help you determine whether you are eligible to request the surrender of your Ravensdown shares, and aid in the completion of the Share Surrender Form.

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To all our Ravensdown Co-operative Shareholders Thank you for your loyalty. Returning value to you is what being part of a co-operative is all about.

Will power leads to dairy success

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New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards 2020 share farmer of the year Will Green is forging a path to farm ownership in the dairy industry. Rob Smith finds out what makes him tick.

Stores Network

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Store network With more than 90 stores in our distribution network, there will always be a store near you.

FMG YFoTY shares insights

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Remain calm under pressure and have confidence in your skills. That’s the advice to contestants in this year’s FMG Young Farmer of the Year competition from 2016 winner Athol New.

Share up for maximum benefit

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t of only $100 for 100 shares, you are on the way to building a shareholding investment which can be a nest egg for your retirement or a benefit to pass on to your children." In years which Ravensdow

Our Shareholders

At Ravensdown we are driven to grow the prosperity of our farmer shareholders, and we would love you to become one of them.

Turning alternative proteins into opportunity

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opportunities. He shares the concept with Ravensdown and his thoughts on the future of food production.

Environment: Shifting goal posts

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Federated Farmers' environmental spokesperson and Ravensdown shareholder Chris Allen shares his views on the new environmental rules being implemented.

Resilient Ravensdown responds with strong $69m profit - returning $68 million to farming

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After ensuring essential food-creating nutrients kept flowing during the pandemic, Ravensdown has recorded a profit from continuing operations and before tax, rebate and an earlier issue of bonus shares of $69 million (2019: $52m).

Eye in the sky

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Now in its third year, our Primary Growth Partnership programme ‘Pioneering to Precision’ is starting to gather momentum. Pilot Grant Lennox shares his unique perspective from above, telling us just what he’s seen out and about as part of the research team spreading fertiliser on the research farms.

Don’t run fast to stand still

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Dairy farmer, Ravensdown shareholder and Fonterra board member Leonie Guiney and her husband Kieran are passionate believers in New Zealand’s pasture-based farming system, envied by many overseas. Leonie shares with us how we need to utilise this system in times of rapid change.

Sharpen up your pasture

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Blade Italian ryegrass has been developed using cutting-edge forage technologies to ensure you get bulk feed when you need it.

Focused Investment to Improve Stormwater Quality

Recognising the shared value of water resources, we are engaging more with stakeholders, gathering more and improved data on environmental quality indicators and investing in site infrastructure upgrades to improve stormwater quality management across our network of sites.

Annual Results 2017

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Ravensdown is paying a total annual rebate of $45 per tonne after a third year of strong results. The 10% increase in rebate on purchased products compared to last year was due to continued balance sheet strength, growing market share and a profit before tax and rebate of $51 million from continuing operations.

Walking the path less trodden

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A risk-averse lending sector and carbon farming sales have left many of our younger generation with limited options for farm ownership. But tenacity, determination and good old-fashioned hard work have seen a young couple buy their first farm on the shores of Lake Taupō . Ravensdown shareholders Sean Nixon and Ruby Mulinder talk Ravensdown through the process of first-farm purchase, running a smart sheep and beef system in a nutrient sensitive catchment, and their venture into sheep milking.

Farming for the future in the deep south

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A shared passion for farming and providing high-quality nutrition to the world is the driving force behind a Southland family’s approach to farming. Ravensdown visited shareholders Jolene and Hadleigh Germann’s property near Ōtautau to get the low-down on how they have reduced environmental impacts on farm and their involvement in a large-scale catchment group.

First principles: the passion behind the pasture

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Brett and Ruth Steeghs are building a 100-year company while raising a young family on their Central Plateau dairy farm. They share their passion and ‘pasture first’ insights with Ravensdown.

New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards 2022

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The 2022 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards are underway with judging for the dairy trainees, dairy managers and share farmer of the year entrants in full swing.