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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 >>
Winter blast rugged but farms coping
Sunday, 23 June 2013, 8:21 pm | Federated Farmers
The active storm front, which brought hurricane force winds to Wellington and significant snow to farms in Canterbury and the High Country, has been testing but farms seem to be coping well. More >>
Volunteer call for snow-raking hard-hit Central Otago farms
Sunday, 23 June 2013, 8:00 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers and the Otago Rural Support Trust are making a call for volunteers to assist around 40 farms in Central Otago, which have become cut off and need external assistance with snow-raking. More >>
Farmers respond to an animal part found in PKE
Thursday, 20 June 2013, 9:10 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers considers the proposed improvements to the biosecurity of Palm Kernel Expeller (PKE), following the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) response to the Federation’s Clark-McKinnon Report, cannot come soon enough. More >>
Farms well prepped for winter blast
Wednesday, 19 June 2013, 6:20 pm | Federated Farmers
Farms in the South Island, which will likely feel the first blast of an imminent winter storm, are largely prepped for what winter will throw at them and their stock. More >>
Farmers up, up and away with Google’s beautiful Loon
Sunday, 16 June 2013, 9:05 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is excitedly welcoming Google's global trial for its revolutionary Project Loon. If successful, Project Loon could ensure near total broadband coverage for rural New Zealand at speeds currently associated with 3G mobile. More >>
Queenstown Lakes change in direction a positive example
Friday, 14 June 2013, 11:26 am | Federated Farmers
Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) has signalled a welcome change of direction, proposing an overall rates increase of 1.5 percent. This equates to a zero percent increase, once growth is provided for, in this years annual plan. More >>
The South Island’s ‘next top farmer’ awaits discovery
Friday, 14 June 2013, 10:39 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is encouraging South Island farmers to enter a competition to discover who could become the South Island’s farmer of farmers. More >>
Meat Industry Excellence gets into the first gear of reform
Wednesday, 12 June 2013, 1:30 pm | Federated Farmers
With the 2013 National Agricultural Fieldays now underway, so is reform of New Zealand’s red meat sector being championed by Meat Industry Excellence (MIE). MIE is shifting the gears of reform following intensive meetings held in Christchurch and Wellington ... More >>
Federated Farmers Meat & Fibre works on reform
Tuesday, 11 June 2013, 5:40 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers Meat and Fibre will follow up on a positive meeting with the Meat Industry Excellence Group (MIE) with a discussion on reform and farmer behaviour at its 2013 conference in Ashburton next month. More >>
The ‘solar farmer’ has arrived
Wednesday, 5 June 2013, 3:35 pm | Federated Farmers
The Westpac/Meridian Energy Solar Shed initiative, based around 40x 250W Renesola panels, has been welcomed by Federated Farmers. More >>
New leaders for Sharemilkers and Sharemilker Employers
Wednesday, 5 June 2013, 11:50 am | Federated Farmers
Twin leadership changes have come about for Federated Farmers Dairy’s Sharemilkers’ and Sharemilker Employers’ sections. Waikato dairy farmer, Tony Wilding, is the new chair of the Employers Section while Tararua farmer, Neil Filer, has been elected ... More >>
Environmentally aware farmer elected Golden Bay president
Tuesday, 4 June 2013, 4:47 pm | Federated Farmers
With the retirement of long serving Federated Farmers Golden Bay provincial president, Graham Ball, Collingwood dairy farmer Sue Brown has stepped up to lead the province. More >>
Taranaki political opportunism appals farmers
Tuesday, 4 June 2013, 3:37 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers Taranaki is concerned the Green Party’s scaremongering over rehabilitated landfarms is putting at risk New Zealand’s number one merchandise export. “Politicians and political parties have a higher duty when it comes to what they say or do,” ... More >>
Whatever Fonterra Can Do, Westland Can Do Too
Thursday, 30 May 2013, 4:34 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers West Coast is delighted that Westland Milk Products is going toe-to-toe with its larger cooperative sibling, Fonterra, with a bullish forecast for the 2013/14 season. More >>
