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Meat & Fibre - Climbing to the top
Wednesday, 2 July 2014, 11:39 am | Federated Farmers
Speech by Jeanette Maxwell Federated Farmers Meat & Fibre Chairperson, to Federated Farmers Meat & Fibre Council at Federated Farmers AGM, Palmerston North More >>
Proud to be a dairy farmer
Wednesday, 2 July 2014, 11:36 am | Federated Farmers
Final speech of Willy Leferink, Federated Farmers Dairy chairperson, to Federated Farmers 2014 Dairy Industry Annual General Meeting, Palmerston North More >>
Rustling needs to be a specific offence
Monday, 30 June 2014, 12:42 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is asking political parties to develop policies to tackle the scourge of stock theft better known as rustling. “We know stock theft or rustling has been estimated to cost the farming community some $120 million each year,” says Katie ... More >>
Dairy farmers win NZ’s top environmental farming award
Friday, 27 June 2014, 5:12 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is praising the significant achievement of Mark and Devon Slee who were named last night the 2014 winners of the Gordon Stephenson Trophy: New Zealand’s most prestigious award for environmental farming. More >>
Amazing claptrap over wind thrown trees
Friday, 27 June 2014, 1:56 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers West Coast is staggered by the rhetoric on the Wind Thrown Trees Bill, passed under urgency last night, which allows for the recovery and use of native timber felled in Cyclone Ita. More >>
Community fundraiser in support of the Stackhouse Family
Friday, 27 June 2014, 9:10 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers and the North Otago community are holding a special fundraising sale to assist Peter and Janine Stackhouse, following the recent brutal attack on their stock. More >>
Ruataniwha final decision will take days to digest
Thursday, 26 June 2014, 4:50 pm | Federated Farmers
It will be at least several days before the Federation is in a position to comment on the final decision by the Tukituki Catchment Proposal Board of Inquiry. More >>
New Zealand’s top environmental farmer to be named in Chch
Wednesday, 25 June 2014, 4:59 pm | Federated Farmers
The winner of New Zealand’s premier award for sustainable farming, the Gordon Stephenson Trophy, will be named in Christchurch tomorrow night (26 June) at the sold-out 2014 Ballance Farm Environment Awards Sustainability Showcase. More >>
Turning nutrient laden farm water into 100% ‘PUER’ H2O
Wednesday, 25 June 2014, 2:02 pm | Federated Farmers
With regional plans increasingly looking to place limits on nutrients like nitrogen, an innovative breakthrough in the process of being commercialised illustrates how science and innovation could vastly improve agriculture’s environmental footprint. ... More >>
Rallying Hawke’s Bay Regional Council for Ruataniwha
Tuesday, 24 June 2014, 12:52 pm | Federated Farmers
Supporters of Ruataniwha are being asked to attend Hawke’s Bay Regional Council’s key meeting on it tomorrow (Wednesday, 25 June at 9am), to reinforce the massive support water storage received last Friday from Waipukurau’s ‘don’t damn our ... More >>
High calibre of leaders
Monday, 23 June 2014, 10:47 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers Manawatu-Rangitikei is thrilled to announce its newest executive members who are joining an already high calibre provincial executive. “We are delighted to introduce our new Dairy Chair Mat Hocken and Richard Morrison who is our new Meat ... More >>
Leave TPP slowcoaches behind, New Zealand farmers urge
Sunday, 22 June 2014, 1:54 pm | Federated Farmers
With Prime Minister John Key and President Barack Obama showing strong support for a comprehensive Trans Pacific Partnership, New Zealand farmers will support leaving countries behind that are not prepared to eliminate agricultural tariffs. “The ... More >>
Don’t let the wreckers damn our dam
Friday, 20 June 2014, 12:47 pm | Federated Farmers
Last month, Massey’s Dr Mike Joy told a Canterbury audience, “The nitrate toxicity in some waterways is 10 times the safe level already. We have gone from safe levels of 1.9 millilitres a litre, to 3.8ml/l in Canterbury." More >>
Farmers and dentists tie on ‘most trusted professions' list
Thursday, 19 June 2014, 11:07 pm | Federated Farmers
Farmers are tied with dentists as New Zealand’s fourteenth most trusted profession in Readers Digest New Zealand's Most Trusted Professions 2014. More >>
Upper Hutt’s vital role in protecting New Zealand
Thursday, 19 June 2014, 11:09 am | Federated Farmers
Upper Hutt will remain central of New Zealand’s biosecurity thanks to a new $65m high-security bio-containment laboratory, to be built on the existing site at Wallaceville. “The Ministry for Primary Industries’ animal health laboratories play a pivotal ... More >>
Don’t damn our dam rally in Hawke’s Bay this Friday
Wednesday, 18 June 2014, 3:55 pm | Federated Farmers
All Hawke’s Bay residents and businesses are being asked to drive their vehicle, whether it is a truck, tractor or excavator, in support of the Ruataniwha water storage scheme in Waipukurau this Friday. More >>
Could dairy sheep put us back on the sheep’s back?
Sunday, 15 June 2014, 7:52 pm | Federated Farmers
With Landcorp eyeing the potential of dairy sheep, the United States could be to our sheep industry what China is to dairy cattle, opening a bold new chapter for New Zealand’s most numerous farmed animal. “New Zealand has a small but thriving ... More >>
Bruce Wills is Agricultural Communicator of the Year
Friday, 13 June 2014, 9:50 am | Federated Farmers
Overnight, Bruce Wills has been named 2014 Landcorp Agricultural Communicator of the Year at a function held during the 2014 Fieldays. This follows on from the President of Federated Farmers being a finalist in the 2013 PRINZ Communicator of the Year ... More >>
Primary Industry’s outlook good
Friday, 13 June 2014, 9:48 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers believes the ‘2014 Situation and Outlook for Primary Industries’, released by the Ministry for Primary Industries, shows a promising future for the New Zealand economy thanks to kiwi farmers. “This report shows an increase of 16.3 ... More >>
Federated Farmers/Rabobank Farm Employee Remuneration Survey
Thursday, 12 June 2014, 11:31 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers and Rabobank have released the 2014 Farm Employee Remuneration Report in time for the 2014 National Agricultural Fieldays. This year’s report is available to members online or in print and is also presented in a new format ... More >>
