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Advance payout evidence of Fonterra’s strength: Brown
Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 11:39 am | Federated Farmers
A 50 cent increase in the forecast Farmgate Milk Price and advance for the 2013/14 season is reflection of the Co-operative’s strength said Fonterra Shareholders’ Council Chairman, Ian Brown. More >>
Fonterra’s ‘overdraft clearing forecast’ for 2013/14
Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 11:36 am | Federated Farmers
A milk price of $7.50 per kilogram of milksolids (kg/MS), now being forecast by Fonterra Cooperative Group for the 2013/14 season, is an ‘overdraft clearer’. Federated Farmers believes farmers will look to pay back credit lines extended to them during ... More >>
Latest water quality trends ‘red letter day’ for farming
Monday, 29 July 2013, 6:27 pm | Federated Farmers
Good environmental farm management is starting to show through in the Ministry for the Environment’s (MfE) latest River condition indicator. This shows that over a decade at 90 percent of the sites tested, most of the MfE’s key indicators were ... More >>
New anti-rustling online map gets the farmer tick
Monday, 29 July 2013, 1:49 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is applauding, Stop Stock Theft, New Zealand’s first ever online map designed to report and track suspected stock theft. This joint initiative between Crimestoppers NZ, NZX-Agri and the Police will be welcomed by all farmers. More >>
Animal cruelty has no place in the dairy industry
Thursday, 25 July 2013, 4:24 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers, DairyNZ and the New Zealand Veterinary Association, takes a strong stance against animal cruelty on-farms and breaking tails is unacceptable stockmanship. More >>
Farmer Confidence Rebounds, New Survey Finds
Wednesday, 24 July 2013, 3:01 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers’ New-Season Farm Confidence Survey, undertaken at the start of the 2013/14 season, has shown a major turnaround in farmer confidence. This result is in keeping with other recent farm and business confidence surveys. More >>
Eliminating wool’s dirty secret
Wednesday, 24 July 2013, 11:22 am | Federated Farmers
With New Zealand’s main-shear approaching, Federated Farmers and the NZ Shearing Contractors Association are backing moves to cut the woolshed contamination of wool. If successful, it could boost farmgate returns by a couple of million dollars each ... More >>
Farms come through latest quake unscathed
Monday, 22 July 2013, 8:35 am | Federated Farmers
There are no reports of damage to farms following this evening’s major earthquake in the Cook Strait. While provincial presidents in Wairarapa, Marlborough, Golden Bay and Nelson are still seeking member feedback, it seems farms have come through ... More >>
Credibility key for Manuka exports
Wednesday, 17 July 2013, 6:36 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is encouraging Manuka honey exporters to test their product prior to export following the identification of C4 sugar, by the Consumer Council of Hong Kong. More >>
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 >>
