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Nobody Pays for Water, Kiwis are Being Brainwashed
Tuesday, 19 September 2017, 5:18 pm | Federated Farmers
Making farmers pay for the water they use is unfair, because nobody else pays for the water they use. More >>
Telling farming’s positive stories at Morrinsville rally
Monday, 18 September 2017, 3:31 pm | Federated Farmers
New Zealand is too small to have a rural/urban divide, Waikato Federated Farmers President Andrew McGiven told the farming rally in Morrinsville at noon today. More >>
Feds Backs Plan to Open Up Landcorp to Young Farmers
Thursday, 14 September 2017, 2:13 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers supports the sale of farms currently operated by Landcorp to young farming families. More >>
Future farming fund investment will optimise primary sector
Monday, 11 September 2017, 2:48 pm | Federated Farmers
The payback for food production, export earnings and the environment from turbo-charging a fund for farming technology and practice will be many times the investment, Federated Farmers says. More >>
Putting NZ agriculture under the ETS is illogical
Friday, 8 September 2017, 2:30 pm | Federated Farmers
Labour’s announcement that it will move agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme in stages will cost the livestock sector at least $83 million in year one, rising to more than $830 million each year when fully implemented. More >>
Let’s tax this. What are we in for, Labour?
Wednesday, 6 September 2017, 1:53 pm | Federated Farmers
On the cusp of the election, voters are still in the dark about what taxes they might be hit with if Labour is part of the next government. More >>
Green Party Nitrogen Tax Idea Based on False Information
Saturday, 2 September 2017, 3:35 pm | Federated Farmers
The discriminatory nitrogen tax proposed by the Green Party in its launch today gets a not-unexpected thumbs-down from Federated Farmers. More >>
Water Conservation Orders Should Be Abolished Says Feds
Friday, 1 September 2017, 10:33 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is calling for Water Conservation Orders (WCO) to be abolished because they are no longer relevant and a relic of the past. More >>
Farm sector welcomes TPP resuscitation talks
Friday, 1 September 2017, 9:26 am | Federated Farmers
The National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) of Australia and Federated Farmers of New Zealand say moves to bring into force the bulk of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is good news for both Australian and New Zealand farm exports. More >>
Rural connectivity reassures primary sector
Wednesday, 30 August 2017, 3:51 pm | Federated Farmers
Significant increased investment in rural broadband and internet connectivity announced today gives reassurance to New Zealand’s primary sector that this country wants to continue to invest in its number one export earner. More >>
Loss of council support doesn't stop need for water
Wednesday, 30 August 2017, 1:36 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers says the decision by Hawke’s Bay Regional Council to withdraw support from the Ruataniwha Dam project leaves questions around the region’s future water storage capability. More >>
Feds disappointed but not surprised by M.bovis finds
Tuesday, 29 August 2017, 4:03 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is disappointed, but not surprised, to learn of three new finds of stock with Mycoplasma bovis. More >>
Feds Wonder Why We Would Need A Tourist Tax?
Monday, 28 August 2017, 4:32 pm | Federated Farmers
Labour’s suggestion of taxing international visitors to raise funds to pay for tourism infrastructure raises questions about why we can’t find the money already from existing tax. More >>
TPP agreement will give New Zealand a competitive edge
Friday, 18 August 2017, 10:24 am | Federated Farmers
A long awaited Trans Pacific Partnership(TPP) agreement can’t come quick enough with approval for a mandate to negotiate good news says Federated Farmers. More >>
Lining Up Labour’s Water Policy
Friday, 11 August 2017, 12:09 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers wants Labour to honour the commitment it made to only look at charging overseas-owned water bottlers and to permanently park its discriminatory tax on water that will divide communities and undermine regional economies. More >>
Farmers to Labour: "Tell Us Your Numbers"
Thursday, 10 August 2017, 9:43 am | Federated Farmers
Labour yesterday announced proposals for a tax on water for large commercial users, including farmers who rely on irrigation water, but in the absence of detail some eye-watering numbers in the billions of dollars have been floated. More >>
One Plan change ‘moving in the right direction’
Wednesday, 9 August 2017, 3:51 pm | Federated Farmers
-- Farmers inside the Horizons Regional Council boundaries are breathing a sigh of relief that options for a change to One Plan are to be investigated. More >>
Farmers' fears far from allayed on water tax
Wednesday, 9 August 2017, 12:59 pm | Federated Farmers
Pledges from Labour to consult on a "proportionate and fair" royalty for irrigation water have eased the concerns of farmers - but only by a tiny margin. More >>
Partnership approach on freshwater quality hailed
Tuesday, 8 August 2017, 4:59 pm | Federated Farmers
-- A partnership approach to dealing with river and lake water quality offers the best prospect of making sustained progress on problems that were often decades in the making, Federated Farmers says. More >>
Funding a boost for quake affected farmers says Feds
Friday, 4 August 2017, 2:31 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is delighted that a joint application made to the Ministry for Primary Industries’ Earthquake Recovery Fund has been successful. More >>
