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Federated Farmers To Fight Environment Regulations
Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 11:42 am | Federated Farmers
Federation President Charlie Pedersen’s Address to National Council 9.50am, November 20, 2007 Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington More >>
Extremists Hijacked South Is. High Country Policy
Tuesday, 20 November 2007, 12:00 am | Federated Farmers
South Island High Country Committee Chair, Donald Aubrey National Council Speech: State of Play Te Papa Tongarewa , Wellington, 11.15am, November 20, 2007 More >>
High Country Oppression Continues
Friday, 16 November 2007, 11:31 am | Federated Farmers
New Zealanders are starting to wake up to the fact that the government is waging a campaign of oppression against High Country farmers, said Donald Aubrey of Federated Farmers of New Zealand. More >>
Get Involved, Dairy Farmers Urged
Thursday, 15 November 2007, 12:36 am | Federated Farmers
Get Involved, Dairy Farmers Urged Federated Farmers is strongly advising all Fonterra suppliers to get involved in the discussion on important changes to the capital structure of their co-operative, said Frank Brenmuhl, chair of the dairy section of Federated ... More >>
Farmers Applaud NZ Herald Campaign
Tuesday, 13 November 2007, 5:53 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers congratulates the New Zealand Herald for its important contribution to public debate on the Electoral Financing Bill. More >>
Keep Pig Virus Out of New Zealand
Tuesday, 13 November 2007, 1:25 pm | Federated Farmers
Relaxing rules on imported pig meat could provide an open pathway for a devastating animal virus to enter New Zealand, said Keith Kelly of Federated Farmers. More >>
Federated Farmers National Council Meeting 2007
Thursday, 8 November 2007, 1:56 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers of New Zealand's National Council Meeting will be held at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington on November 20 and 21 2007. More >>
Court Decision Shows RMA Flawed
Friday, 2 November 2007, 10:41 am | Federated Farmers
An Appeal Court decision in favour of an environmentalist group has highlighted the urgent need for reform of the Resource Management Act, said Bruce McNab of Federated Farmers of New Zealand. More >>
Moving On Up
Thursday, 1 November 2007, 3:36 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers’ proud record as an important training ground for future community and business leaders has been reinforced by two key appointments to Environment Waikato, said Don Nicolson, vice president of Federated Farmers of New Zealand. More >>
Well Done South Canterbury
Thursday, 1 November 2007, 9:07 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers joins with the community of South Canterbury in congratulating all those that helped develop the very successful Opuha dam project. More >>
Mallard Urged To Fix RMA
Wednesday, 31 October 2007, 2:18 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is urging the new environment minister, Trevor Mallard, to put reform of the Resource Management Act (RMA) at the top of his “fix-it” list. More >>
Nuffield Scholars Announced
Tuesday, 16 October 2007, 10:37 am | Federated Farmers
The New Zealand Nuffield Farming Scholarship Trust is pleased to announce three scholarship recipients for 2007. More >>
Federated Farmers: RMA Needs Overhaul - Survey
Friday, 5 October 2007, 11:30 am | Federated Farmers
The cost of the Resource Management Act has been slammed again in a survey of farmers, said Don Nicolson, vice-president of Federated Farmers of New Zealand. More >>
Seed Growers Optimistic
Tuesday, 2 October 2007, 11:29 am | Federated Farmers
Herbage seed prices are lifting to levels never seen before in New Zealand, says the chair of the Herbage Seedgrowers Subsection of Federated Farmers, Hugh Wigley. More >>
Rural Voice Must Be Preserved
Friday, 28 September 2007, 2:21 pm | Federated Farmers
The law must change to retain a rural voice in local government, said Don Nicolson, vice-president of Federated Farmers of New Zealand. More >>
Landmark Decision Vindicates Farmers
Monday, 24 September 2007, 4:51 pm | Federated Farmers
A landmark Environment Court decision on a resource consent strongly backs Federated Farmers' calls to reform DoC's role as an advocate in the RMA process*. More >>
Farmers Welcome Climate Change Announcement
Thursday, 20 September 2007, 2:57 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers welcomes that agriculture has been given more time to find ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions before joining an emissions trading scheme, said Charlie Pedersen, President of Federated Farmers of New Zealand. More >>
Electoral Finance Bill Must Change
Thursday, 20 September 2007, 12:33 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers has joined calls for sweeping changes to the Electoral Finance Bill. Appearing before the justice and electoral select committee today, Federation president Charlie Pedersen said the Bill went too far and contradicted one of its ... More >>
Council Rates, Spending Must Be Reined In
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 4:33 pm | Federated Farmers
Official figures show that local government rates and spending are out of control and must be reined in, said Don Nicolson, vice president of Federated Farmers. More >>
Farmers Say Time Goose Is Cooked
Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 9:00 am | Federated Farmers
The urgent need for better management of Canada goose numbers has been reinforced by official papers showing a surging geese population in the South Island. More >>
