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Jetstar versus ‘all day every day biosecurity’
Wednesday, 4 August 2010, 3:33 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers views Jetstar’s desire to do away with trans-Tasman border controls as short sighted commercial self-interest. More >>
MTAS announcement welcomed by farmers
Wednesday, 4 August 2010, 2:04 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers welcomes the Communications and Information Technology Minister, the Hon Steven Joyce’s decision to regulate mobile termination access services (MTAS). More >>
Timely Review Of Regulated Raw Milk Criteria
Tuesday, 3 August 2010, 5:47 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is disappointed that the Government is extending the pro-competitive triggers built into the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act (DIRA). More >>
Announcement leaves farmers cautiously optimistic
Tuesday, 3 August 2010, 3:04 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is welcoming the Land Information Minister, the Hon Maurice Williamson’s, announcement approving a new system for setting rents for South Island high country pastoral leases. More >>
Sheep and beef profitability sees new horizon
Tuesday, 3 August 2010, 2:42 pm | Federated Farmers
Following declining profit for the sheep and beef sector, a new horizon for the sheep and beef sector hinges on the meat sector strategy and a positive follow-on from the wool industry taskforce, to create a viable future. More >>
Fertiliser Cooperative results show investment
Monday, 2 August 2010, 12:30 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers believes last week’s results from Ravensdown and Ballance shows that farmers are focused on productive investment. More >>
Forest & Bird Invited To Set Up Drylands Park
Friday, 30 July 2010, 5:59 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers has invited Forest & Bird to go into the open market and buy farmland for the Mackenzie drylands park it wishes to establish.“I’m taken aback by how misinformed Forest & Bird seem to be" says Graham Reed More >>
Farmers embrace healthy Bee campaign
Friday, 30 July 2010, 2:47 pm | Federated Farmers
An ongoing programme that highlights the importance of bees to agriculture and offers practical ways to encourage better bee health on New Zealand farms is proving highly popular. More >>
No Country For Farmers?
Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 4:11 pm | Federated Farmers
20 percent of New Zealand’s sheep and beef farms could be replaced by oxymoronic ‘carbon forestry’, if the ambitions of foreign owned carbon foresters and the Government are realised. More >>
Hurunui River moratorium supported
Thursday, 22 July 2010, 5:24 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is supportive of Environment Canterbury’s (ECan) decision to place a moratorium on water take consent applications for the Hurunui River More >>
Get ready to celebrate the bee
Thursday, 22 July 2010, 5:09 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is getting ready to celebrate the many positive attributes of the honey bee, as Bee Week 2010 rolls around next week. More >>
The ‘Farm Toll’ Is Reducing, Argues Farmers
Wednesday, 21 July 2010, 5:05 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers has responded to the Wellington Coroner by pointing out a 23 percent reduction in the ‘farm toll’ between 2006 and 2009. More >>
Federated Farmers Backs Meat Industry Strategy
Tuesday, 20 July 2010, 5:38 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers has pledged its full support to Beef+Lamb NZ as well as the Meat Industry Association for development of a Meat Industry Strategy. More >>
Employment changes welcomed by farmers
Tuesday, 20 July 2010, 10:19 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is welcoming the changes to labour laws announced by Government recently. More >>
Synlait Milk goes east with Bright Dairy & Food Co
Monday, 19 July 2010, 3:20 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers believes the weakness of New Zealand’s capital markets has been exposed by Bright Dairy & Food Co Limited of China, taking a 51 percent stake in Synlait Milk. More >>
ACC Changes Provide Good Incentives
Friday, 16 July 2010, 3:27 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers has welcomed the Government’s decision to introduce experience rating for larger employers and a system of non-claim bonuses as well as high-claim loadings for smaller employers, such as farms. More >>
Farmers call not to raise OCR vindicated by events
Friday, 16 July 2010, 1:55 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers warning last month that the Official Cash Rate (OCR) should have been kept on hold has been vindicated with a lower than expected rise in the Consumers Price Index – driven by weak housing and retail sales – as well as a more precarious ... More >>
90-day widening gets the big tick from farmers
Friday, 16 July 2010, 1:32 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is welcoming reports that the Employment Relations Act will be amended to extend the 90-day probation period to all employers. More >>
China’s got the cash, we’ve got the brains
Monday, 12 July 2010, 3:48 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers believes the medium term priority for New Zealand economic development is to maximise agricultural opportunities in New Zealand, rather than spreading ourselves too thinly by rushing into third countries. More >>
Overseas consumer research ‘a wake-up'
Friday, 9 July 2010, 1:09 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is hailing research being published in the journal Food Policy , by University of Otago’s Associate Professor John Knight and colleagues, about consumer preferences in New Zealand’s largest European export market. More >>
