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Farmers say cut OCR to avoid a ‘dead cat bounce’
Wednesday, 9 September 2009, 10:05 am | Federated Farmers
Unless the Reserve Bank cuts the Official Cash Rate (OCR) by 50 basis points tomorrow, Federated Farmers believes New Zealand risks a ‘W’ shaped recession. “The ‘sit on your hands’ approach has just seen the dollar appreciate sharply since the OCR ... More >>
Farmers’ rates skyrocketing, survey says
Monday, 7 September 2009, 9:59 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers latest local government rates survey has revealed two farms paying over $100,000 in rates this year and a further six paying over $50,000. The self selecting survey, conducted in late August, garnered 520 responses. It discovered ... More >>
Auckland’s proposed boundaries: A concrete curtain
Monday, 7 September 2009, 9:33 am | Federated Farmers
With the radical shakeup of Auckland being proposed by the Auckland Governance Legislation Committee, Federated Farmers is looking to Parliament to set much of the super city’s boundary on that proposed in the Report of the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance. ... More >>
Government gives biosecurity hospital pass
Friday, 4 September 2009, 10:09 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers strongly opposes lumping biosecurity costs onto farmers as laid out in the Joint Decision Making and Cost Sharing Master Deed released by Government today. More >>
Fish & Game attempt at licence fee increase a joke
Thursday, 3 September 2009, 4:44 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers applauds Associate Minister of Conservation, the Hon Kate Wilkinson’s decision to block Fish and Game New Zealand from increasing its license fee. “With fishing licences costing more than $100, the price of enjoying the great outdoors ... More >>
Farmers keep heat on banks
Wednesday, 2 September 2009, 5:34 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers has told the Parliamentary Banking Inquiry today that there is still room for interest rate cuts. “The Federation has been campaigning for lower interest rates for some time now. Our surveys have indicated that farmers are not ... More >>
Fed Farmers vice pres says 'yes' to fine wool levy
Wednesday, 2 September 2009, 4:16 pm | Federated Farmers
After this week’s ‘no’ vote in the Meat & Wool New Zealand wool levy referendum, Federated Farmers vice president Donald Aubrey is suggesting a fine wool growers organisation be developed. “I say yes to the collection of a levy that can be used ... More >>
GlobalDairyTrade up, up and away
Wednesday, 2 September 2009, 11:10 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is delighted by today’s 24.2 percent increase in average whole milk powder prices (WMP) from the latest GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) event. “It is a big relief for dairy farmers to see the price of WMP still tracking up on the back ... More >>
ETS report not welcomed by farmers
Tuesday, 1 September 2009, 10:34 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers has not welcomed the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) Review Committee’s report, as it still recommends the inclusion of the agricultural sector. More >>
Sobering result for Meat & Wool New Zealand
Monday, 31 August 2009, 4:27 pm | Federated Farmers
While farmers voted ‘no’ to any wool or goatmeat levy, the result of the sheepmeat and beef levy vote was hardly convincing either. More >>
Green Party disclosure reckless and irresponsible
Friday, 28 August 2009, 10:51 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is concerned at the reckless and irresponsible disclosure in Parliament of a preliminary draft report by Sue Kedgley MP. “Releasing a preliminary draft report, which has never been finalised, peer reviewed or subjected to robust scientific ... More >>
Bold new direction for high country
Thursday, 27 August 2009, 1:39 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is welcoming the new direction set out yesterday by the National Government for the South Island high country. “At last we have a guarantee that Crown pastoral land will be put to good use and not just left in mothballs,” says ... More >>
‘Don’t stuff up the referendum’ farmers urged
Thursday, 27 August 2009, 12:31 pm | Federated Farmers
While the $9 million ‘smacking referendum’ engendered a lot of coverage, Meat & Wool’s levy referendum, of far greater economic importance to New Zealand, has a current turnout of only 33 percent and closes this Friday. More >>
Farmers serve RMA bill with ‘non compliance’ order
Monday, 24 August 2009, 9:31 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is giving the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Bill a notice of non compliance after it failed to acknowledge property rights and full compensation principles. “No Resource Management Act (RMA) reform ... More >>
Palm kernel - right story with the wrong execution
Monday, 24 August 2009, 9:20 am | Federated Farmers
Palm kernel extract, a waste by-product with almost no commercial value, does not cause the destruction of tropical forests. Used as supplementary feed, farmers’ biggest concern was not covered in the Sunday Star Times; that being the biosecurity ... More >>
Trans-Tasman biosecurity changes positive ... but
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 3:38 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is welcoming the closer integration on trans-Tasman flights of MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (Biosecurity NZ) with the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS), but raises important questions about the proposal. “On the face ... More >>
Farmers turn septic on urban tanks
Wednesday, 19 August 2009, 4:06 pm | Federated Farmers
Poorly maintained urban septic tanks are giving agriculture the bum’s rush by posing an environmental, health and agricultural risk. “Councils need to show the same vigilance with urban septic systems as they show with farmers. After all, farming ... More >>
Memo to Mike Lee, cows are not pufferfish
Monday, 17 August 2009, 9:58 am | Federated Farmers
In a major case of biological misidentification, farmers are demanding an apology from Auckland Regional Council (ARC) Chairman, Mike Lee, after he fingered farmers last week as a possible cause of Auckland’s toxic algae bloom. The toxin, Tetrodotoxin, ... More >>
High country appeal would be irresponsible
Friday, 14 August 2009, 1:53 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers believes an appeal of the Minaret Station Otago Land Valuation Tribunal decision would be an irresponsible use of taxpayers money. The Federation has also lambasted former Labour Lands Minister, the Hon David Parker, as still failing ... More >>
El Nino: 2.8 billion reasons to back water storage
Friday, 14 August 2009, 1:50 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is challenging the Government and Dr. Don Brash’s productivity taskforce to back water storage. With the economic effect of the 2007/08 El Nino influenced drought being revised from $1.2 billion to $2.8 billion, the economic ... More >>
