Energy efficient lightbulb innovator and marketer Energy Mad has issued the latest in a string of downgrades since its listing in late 2011 and is now projecting a loss of $1.1 million for the year to March 31. That compares with a $4 million forecast profit in its 2011 prospectus and a revision just two months ago to expect a …

PGG Wrightson, the rural services company controlled by Singapore-based Agria, listed first-half profit by 55 percent on earning s growth from retail and Ag services, allowing it to declare a 2.2 cents a share interim dividend. Profit rose to $4.8 million in the six months ended Dec. 31, from $3.1 million a year earlier, the company said in a statement. …

Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world’s biggest dairy exporter, has held its forecast farmgate payment on expectations of higher global prices in the second half of the season, and wants to grow its winter milk supply, meaning a tinkering with the capital structure. Farmers are still expected to be paid $5.50 per kilogram of milk solids, with forecast earnings per share …