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Farming thumbs up to financial reporting decision
Friday, 26 February 2010, 9:55 am | Federated Farmers
Farmers are throwing a bouquet at the Government for deciding that large private companies don’t have to file their financial statements with the Registrar of Companies. More >>
Fonterra profit forecast positive
Wednesday, 24 February 2010, 5:23 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is welcoming a minimum 10 percent uplift in Fonterra Cooperative Group’s Distributable Profit forecast range for the 2009/2010 season. More >>
Local Government funding and democratic efficiency
Wednesday, 24 February 2010, 10:08 am | Federated Farmers
Speech by Don Nicolson, President of Federated Farmers, to the Local Government New Zealand Rural and Provincial Group, 18 February 2010 More >>
Transmission lines grievance genuine
Monday, 22 February 2010, 11:14 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers, at a scheduled meeting with Transpower, has outlined its thinking about how best to resolve what has become ‘an open sore’ for many landowners, not just farmers. More >>
Making ECant an ECan
Friday, 19 February 2010, 3:41 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers believes today’s scathing Ministerial Report into Environment Canterbury (ECan), reflects the poor long term leadership of the Council and not the recently elected Chair, Alec Neil. More >>
New code of welfare for dairy cattle released
Friday, 19 February 2010, 10:43 am | Federated Farmers
Agriculture Minister David Carter has today issued a new code of animal welfare which sets down minimum standards for the farming of dairy cattle. More >>
Fed Farmers spokesman plays electricity peacemaker
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 3:51 pm | Federated Farmers
The spread of farmer unrest about transmission infrastructure has Federated Farmers national office stressing the importance of annual rentals being added to the compensation mix. More >>
Feds spokesperson plays electricity peacemaker
Thursday, 18 February 2010, 9:51 am | Federated Farmers
The spread of farmer unrest about transmission infrastructure has Federated Farmers national office stressing the importance of annual rentals being added to the compensation mix. More >>
Farmers Slate Horizons Lack of Horizon on Water
Wednesday, 17 February 2010, 10:21 am | Federated Farmers
Today, Federated Farmers will outline how it would transform Horizons Regional Council’s contentious One Plan water chapters from unworkable to workable. “We want to make things work and that means securing water policies that farmers can genuinely buy ... More >>
Taskforce report helps put wool back on track
Wednesday, 17 February 2010, 9:45 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers has welcomed this afternoon’s release of the Wool Industry Taskforce report about restoring profitability to the New Zealand wool industry. To that end the Federation will be following it up on Monday by meeting with Meat & Wool NZ. More >>
Water - let’s bank it
Tuesday, 16 February 2010, 4:05 pm | Federated Farmers
Today I stand before you – some of our nation’s top business leaders – to put forward the farmers’ case for more water storage. More >>
Federated Farmers on Budget Policy Statement
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 11:47 am | Federated Farmers
For several years, the New Zealand economy has been unbalanced with the tradeable sector in recession at the same time as the domestic economy has hummed along, supported by rapid growth in Government spending and a housing boom that has made people feel ... More >>
Federated Farmers Busts 1080 Myths
Wednesday, 10 February 2010, 12:55 pm | Federated Farmers
In the lead feature of the latest edition of the National Farming Review, currently being posted to Federation members, Federated Farmers has laid down the gauntlet to anti-1080 groups. More >>
Federated Farmers Asks, The Government Listens
Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 5:21 pm | Federated Farmers
The Prime Minister’s 2010 statement to Parliament today shows John Key has been listening to Federated Farmers prescription to grow the economy. “New Zealand can pass Australia because we have the water and they don’t,” says Don Nicolson, ... More >>
Priorities for Key and English
Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 9:15 am | Federated Farmers
Prime Minister, the Hon John Key MP`, is due to make a “state of the nation” speech tomorrow setting out what his Government will seek to achieve over the next 12 months. More >>
Due diligence urged on Fonterra Chinese operations
Thursday, 4 February 2010, 1:35 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is urging Fonterra to exercise caution in any expansion of its Chinese operations, announced yesterday. More >>
Reasons to farm weka
Wednesday, 3 February 2010, 10:00 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is backing entrepreneurial farmer, Roger Beattie, in his quest to secure trial approval to supply farmed weka. “Here’s a true Kiwi entrepreneur who ought to have every policy encouragement to see if a new market can be created,” ... More >>
Rain Bad For Some, Good For Others
Monday, 1 February 2010, 3:40 pm | Federated Farmers
As torrential rain on the East Coast of the North Island swelled rivers, closed roads and forced some out of their homes, hill country farmers brought out the welcoming mat. More >>
Federated Farmers meets Energy Minister
Saturday, 30 January 2010, 10:51 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers this afternoon re-tabled its Compensation for transmission infrastructure report, written by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER), at a meeting with the Hon Gerry Brownlee MP, Minister of Resources and Energy. More >>
Call-In of Mackenzie applications a vital test
Thursday, 28 January 2010, 10:19 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is welcoming the Call-In decision on the Mackenzie Basin applications. “This Call-In to a Board of Inquiry is a litmus test for economic development,” says Lachlan McKenzie, Federated Farmers Dairy chairperson. More >>
