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PINZ Throws The Spotlight On Food And Fibre Innovators
Thursday, 12 January 2023, 10:22 am | Federated Farmers
The hunt is on for the latest crop of innovators who have helped move New Zealand’s reputation for producing high quality foods and fibres to even greater heights. The fifth annual Primary Industries New Zealand Awards will be held in Wellington on ... More >>
Vague Improvements To The Government's Emissions Levy Not Enough, Change Is Needed To NZ’s Broken Methane Targets
Wednesday, 21 December 2022, 1:55 pm | Federated Farmers
Today the Government announced changes to their October plan to price agricultural emissions, but the vague improvements are simply not enough and Feds remain opposed. While this Government remains focused on the primary purpose of using the price of ... More >>
Feds Survey: Interest Pinch Weighs Heavily On Farmer Stress
Monday, 19 December 2022, 10:57 am | Federated Farmers
Farmers are being squeezed by rising interest rates, with debt or other financial concerns eroding mental wellbeing, the latest Federated Farmers Banking Survey shows. Nearly 1200 farming businesses answered questions in the November survey, reporting ... More >>
Feds Backs Telethon To Feed Everyone For Christmas
Wednesday, 14 December 2022, 3:00 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is backing The Big Feed, an event calling on farmers and growers to donate one million meals worth of the nutritious food they produce to food banks during a telethon event livestreamed tomorrow. The Big Feed will be livestreamed ... More >>
Council Review A Chance To Achieve Better Ratepayer Equity, Feds Says
Tuesday, 6 December 2022, 1:35 pm | Federated Farmers
Yet another local government review is underway - but will its recommendations actually be picked up, especially regarding cost fairness? The existing system of property value rates is loaded against agriculture. Farmers pay many more times than other ... More >>
Feds Applauds Government’s Rural Connectivity Ambitions
Sunday, 4 December 2022, 6:30 pm | Federated Farmers
The government’s goal that by 2032 every rural and remote resident and worker in New Zealand will have the ability to access the connectivity they need is ambitious but admirable, Federated Farmers says. It’s one of a number of aspirational targets ... More >>
Seed Growers United But International Headwinds Loom
Wednesday, 23 November 2022, 11:59 am | Federated Farmers
With seed firms poised to release next year’s contract offerings, Federated Farmers is encouraging herbage seed growers to utilise its cost of production calculator. The spreadsheet, available through the Feds News website provides a valuable tool ... More >>
Return Of Arable Grower Confidence In Milling Wheat
Wednesday, 23 November 2022, 10:11 am | Federated Farmers
Farmer confidence in the prospects for milling wheat is on the upswing, with the 11,113 hectares already sown or intending to be sown up 44% on last season. "That brings milling wheat hectares back very close to the 11,798ha harvested in 2021, ... More >>
Design Academic Turns The Spotlight On Woolsheds
Tuesday, 22 November 2022, 9:52 am | Federated Farmers
A Massey University lecturer and design expert is focusing attention on the importance of preserving New Zealand’s most historic, colourful and community-oriented woolsheds. Federated Farmers is helping Dr Annette O’Sullivan raise the $30,000 she needs ... More >>
Farmers Told To Sign Up For Connectivity Help
Thursday, 17 November 2022, 4:17 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is urging its members struggling with poor and unreliable internet connectivity to sign up for government assistance under the Remote Users Scheme announced today. "We know from the responses we get from our annual rural connectivity ... More >>
Feds: New Resource Management Bill Divides Town And Country
Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 4:07 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is worried proposed replacement resource management legislation focuses only on streamlining urban development and will make it harder, not easier, to farm in New Zealand. "The government has gone out of its way to emphasise ... More >>
Feds Say Farmers Just Fed Up
Tuesday, 1 November 2022, 2:41 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is clear that farmers should carry out winter grazing in a responsible manner and in no way encourages farmers to break the law. But when pathways are limited and full of roadblocks, people simply become frustrated says Federated Farmers Winter ... More >>
Public Share Farmers’ Methane Pricing Misgivings
Tuesday, 25 October 2022, 5:31 am | Federated Farmers
A new poll shows it’s not just farmers who question government moves to make New Zealand the first country in the world to tax livestock methane emissions. The latest Curia survey of 500 New Zealanders, which has a margin of error of +/- 4%, found ... More >>
Feds Urges Core Infrastructure Focus This Council Triennium
Monday, 17 October 2022, 10:05 am | Federated Farmers
There are myriad issues facing local government but always keep front of mind the topic that was likely top of the list of most residents’ concerns out on the campaign trail - their rates bills. That’s the request to newly-elected councillors up and ... More >>
Renewed Support For ‘Get Kiwis On Farm’ Initiative
Wednesday, 12 October 2022, 3:07 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers and the Ministry of Social Development are pleased to announce another round of support for the "Get Kiwis on Farm" project, one of the government’s most successful worker placement COVID initiatives. The initiative ... More >>
Government’s Farm Emissions Plan - Say Goodbye Small Town New Zealand
Tuesday, 11 October 2022, 9:55 am | Federated Farmers
The greenhouse gas reduction plan released by the government this morning will rip the guts out of small town New Zealand, putting trees where farms used to be. The plan aims to reduce sheep and beef farming in New Zealand by 20% and dairy farming ... More >>
Higher Migrant Wage Requirement Will Pinch Kiwis At The Supermarket
Monday, 10 October 2022, 4:14 pm | Federated Farmers
Kiwis will ultimately pay more for their food when the substantial increase in international workers’ pay kicks in from February, Federated Farmers warns. The Government has announced a new median wage of $29.66 per hour will be adopted into the immigration ... More >>
Flexible Forage Trading Agreement Caters For Cost Variability
Tuesday, 27 September 2022, 10:32 am | Federated Farmers
Farmer and rural contractor industry groups have worked together on an initiative to safeguard their members in the face of fuel and fertilizer price volatility. "The new Forage Trading Agreement has been developed by Federated Farmers in conjunction ... More >>
Too Many Famers Still Stuck In Connectivity ‘slow Lane’
Thursday, 22 September 2022, 2:55 pm | Federated Farmers
Coverage, reliability and speed of mobile and internet services for many farming families and businesses are treading water, if not going backwards, the 2022 Federated Farmers Rural Connectivity Survey shows. More than half of the nearly 1,200 farmers ... More >>
Shared Kiwi Values Drives Hynds Group, Federated Farmers Strategic Partnership
Tuesday, 20 September 2022, 1:52 pm | Federated Farmers
Hynds Group and Federated Farmers have signed a strategic partnership based on a shared belief in integrity, innovation, continuous improvement, sustainability and helping fellow New Zealanders to succeed. Founded 49 years ago by John and Léonie ... More >>
