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Farmers extend recycling efforts to old TV sets
Wednesday, 17 July 2013, 3:02 pm | Federated Farmers
Off the back of Waikato farmers recycling an impressive six-tonne of agrichemicals through AgRecovery, Federated Farmers is encouraging farmers to recycle their old television sets as part of the Government’s “TV TakeBack” programme. More >>
‘Gloves off’ as Dutch dairy giant gets Synlait beachhead
Friday, 12 July 2013, 3:32 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers believes the 7.5 percent shareholding in Synlait taken by FrieslandCampina Investments Holding BV1, a subsidiary of Dutch Dairy Cooperative giant FrieslandCampina, could shake-up the New Zealand dairy industry. More >>
Waikato farmers set the record for Agrecovery
Friday, 12 July 2013, 12:27 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is applauding the way Waikato farmers have embraced Agrecovery rural recycling. A record six tonne of hazardous horticultural, agricultural and veterinary chemicals was collected during the Waikato regional collection, finishing ... More >>
As the South Island clears, the North gets hit
Friday, 12 July 2013, 11:08 am | Federated Farmers
With North Island farms facing a wet cold spell, their Southern colleagues are now almost clear of the widespread heavy snow which affected much of the High Country late last month. More >>
Bee keepers pay respects to visionary Claude Stratford
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 5:07 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers’ Bee Industry Group is paying its own respects to bee industry legend, Claude Stratford, who passed away yesterday aged 102. More >>
Farmers Sign-on For the Sustainable Dairying: Water Accord
Tuesday, 9 July 2013, 5:17 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is proud to join the Dairy Industry’s collective effort, the Sustainable Dairying: Water Accord, to lift dairying’s overall freshwater performance. It forms part of a cogent strategy that could see dairying double its export value ... More >>
New Zealand’s prospects are bright indeed
Saturday, 6 July 2013, 10:29 am | Federated Farmers
Keynote speech by Bruce Wills, Federated Farmers President, to Federated Farmers 2013 National Conference, Hotel Ashburton, Ashburton. More >>
2013 Agri Business Person & Agri Personality named
Friday, 5 July 2013, 3:32 pm | Federated Farmers
Named during the gala Vodafone/Federated Farmers Cream of the Crop Awards, being held this year in Ashburton, the 2013 Allflex Agri Business Person is Kingi Smiler, Chairman of the Wairarapa Moana Incorporation. Our 2013 Agri Personality is former ... More >>
2013 Agri Business Person & Agri Personality named
Friday, 5 July 2013, 12:34 pm | Federated Farmers
Named during the gala Vodafone/Federated Farmers Cream of the Crop Awards, being held this year in Ashburton, the 2013 Allflex Agri Business Person is Kingi Smiler, Chairman of the Wairarapa Moana Incorporation. More >>
US farming group misdirects money to export support
Thursday, 4 July 2013, 2:41 pm | Federated Farmers
News reports that the United States’ Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) is to increase export subsidy support to US$60 million, is a misdirection of voluntary farmer levies in the eyes of Federated Farmers of New Zealand. More >>
To be or not to be questions for red meat
Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 2:37 pm | Federated Farmers
In writing my address to you today, where we will be discussing the biggest change red meat has faced for a generation, the first four lines from Shakespeare’s Hamlet come to mind. Especially since there seems to be something rotten in the state of ... More >>
How are we going to turn the regulation boat around?
Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 2:24 pm | Federated Farmers
Dear fellow dairy farmers and welcome to my part of paradise. For those of us who travelled to this year’s Fieldays in Hamilton, we were among 125,127 people who did the same thing. Maybe it was warmer weather but the mood was up beat. More >>
Farmers arrive in Ashburton for Federated Farmers Conference
Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 2:11 pm | Federated Farmers
Farmers are congregating in Ashburton for Federated Farmers 2013 National Conference, which starts today and will run through to Friday. “Federated Farmers is delighted to be back in Canterbury for our key national event,” says Bruce Wills, Federated ... More >>
Reassessment of organophosphates and carbamates
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 11:00 am | Federated Farmers
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) is being congratulated by Federated Farmers for the difficult decisions it has made around the use of organophosphates and carbamates (OPC’s). More >>
New Special Agriculture Trade Envoy appointed
Thursday, 27 June 2013, 12:52 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers welcomes Beef+Lamb NZ chairman, Mike Petersen, to the position of New Zealand Special Agriculture Trade Envoy. Mr Petersen succeeds past Federated Farmers President, Alistair Polson, in that particular role. More >>
Mid-Canterbury farmers take top environmental award
Thursday, 27 June 2013, 11:48 am | Federated Farmers
Mid-Canterbury can lay claim to having some of the smartest farmers in New Zealand, with Craige and Roz Mackenzie winning the Gordon Stephenson trophy; the supreme award at the 2013 New Zealand Farm Environment Awards held in Hamilton. More >>
Relief PKE animal part not foreign but systems needed
Wednesday, 26 June 2013, 4:29 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is relieved that DNA testing on an animal part found in Palm Kernel Expeller (PKE) is now confirmed to be a local sheep. Originally suspected by the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) to be foreign, its discovery still shows the ... More >>
Otago snow-raking volunteers hailed
Tuesday, 25 June 2013, 5:04 pm | Federated Farmers
Otago Rural Support Trust Coordinator David Mellish is hailing the amount of support snow stricken farmers in central and north Otago have received as a result of a recent call to arms. More >>
Winter bites hard in Mid-Canterbury but response magnificent
Tuesday, 25 June 2013, 11:41 am | Federated Farmers
After a gentle start to winter in Mid-Canterbury, the last week saw Mid-Canterbury hit hard by three-days of heavy rain quickly followed by three-days of snow. Blizzard like conditions in Canterbury’s High Country has left farmers fighting hard to ... More >>
Volunteer call for snow-raking extends to the High Country
Monday, 24 June 2013, 11:58 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers and the Rural Support Trust are extending the call for volunteers to assist Canterbury High Country farms with snow-raking. More >>
