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Federated Farmers - Latest News [Page 95]
Otago province executive changes
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 1:46 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers’ Otago Annual General Meeting was held on Tuesday 3 May and saw new vice Dairy and Meat & Fibre chairpersons voted in. More >>
Farmers express hopes for NPS on freshwater management
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 9:25 am | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers will work with the Government given today's announcement of a National Policy Statement (NPS) for water and the Cleanup Fund. More >>
Water Marks New Zealand as the Real ‘Lucky Country’
Monday, 9 May 2011, 5:17 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is hailing the significant announcement today on both water storage and on policy as moves that will cement New Zealand as the real ‘lucky country’. More >>
Manawatu/Rangitikei Region Gets New President
Monday, 9 May 2011, 5:06 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers’ Manawatu/Rangitikei AGM on Wednesday 4 May saw Andrew Hoggard elected as the new provincial president. Mr Hoggard is currently an executive member on the Federated Farmers Dairy industry group and is standing for Vice Chairperson. More >>
Proposed landowner duck hunt tax is poorly camouflaged greed
Monday, 9 May 2011, 2:49 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers rejects a recent push by Fish and Game looking to force landowners to pay new hunting fees to shoot ducks on their own land. More >>
Water Storage critical to New Zealand’s big future
Monday, 9 May 2011, 2:36 pm | Federated Farmers
New Zealand is big. Our land mass is 67 percent the size of Germany’s, 72 percent of Japans and bigger than the United Kingdom. Our coast is longer than mainland USA and our economic zone around two thirds the size of Australia. Critically our skies ... More >>
Nelson region gets a Federated Farmers provincial president
Friday, 6 May 2011, 10:45 am | Federated Farmers
Following the Federated Farmers Nelson Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 4 May, Gavin O’Donnell was elected as the new provincial president. Mr O’Donnell was Nelson’s Meat & Fibre chairperson and a successor will be determined in the coming ... More >>
Rural customers should expect cheaper mobile rates
Thursday, 5 May 2011, 2:14 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers lobbying looks like it could deliver much cheaper mobile phone calls and texts for over a quarter of a million rural telecommunication customers. More >>
Golden Bay region gets new Meat & Fibre chair
Thursday, 5 May 2011, 1:45 pm | Federated Farmers
Following the Federated Farmers Golden Bay Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 3 May John Harwood was elected as the regional Meat & Fibre chair. He replaces his brother Nigel Harwood who will remain on the executive. More >>
Farming wages well ahead of non-farm wages
Thursday, 5 May 2011, 1:43 pm | Federated Farmers
While the recession continues to dampen wages and salaries outside the farm gate, inside it, farm workers recorded an overall average salary rise of 4.9 percent in the year to October 2010, according to the Federated Farmers/Rabobank Farm Employee ... More >>
Wairarapa region gets a new president
Thursday, 5 May 2011, 1:30 pm | Federated Farmers
Following the Wairarapa AGM on Monday 2 May, Paul McGill was elected as the new President after Anders Crofoot decided not to seek re-election after four years as president. Mr McGill was Wairarapa’s Grain & Seed chairperson and a successor will be determined ... More >>
Hawke’s Bay farmers welcome adverse event declaration
Tuesday, 3 May 2011, 7:12 pm | Federated Farmers
Hawke’s Bay farmers welcome adverse event declaration Federated Farmers has welcomed the Government’s declaration of a medium scale adverse event for farmers in the Hawke’s Bay. Federated Farmers stresses that the help is practical and advisory ... More >>
Beef+Lamb – NZTE initiative will boost exports
Thursday, 28 April 2011, 4:31 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers believes two recent and significant policy initiatives are coming together that will make the Red Meat Market Development Contestable Fund fly for not just farmers, but all New Zealanders. More >>
OCR hold sends pre-Budget message
Thursday, 28 April 2011, 4:04 pm | Federated Farmers
This morning’s hold of the Official Cash Rate (OCR) at 2.5 percent, following last month’s 50 basis point cut, sends a powerful pre-Budget message to the Government. More >>
Hawke’s Bay storm - effect on stock and farms
Thursday, 28 April 2011, 4:01 pm | Federated Farmers
Following Central Hawke’s Bay District Council declaring a state of emergency, Federated Farmers Hawke’s Bay province has started collating reports from affected farms. More >>
Biosecurity fundamental but NAIT questions remain
Wednesday, 27 April 2011, 5:09 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers fully backs biosecurity resources at the border because biosecurity is the alpha and omega of not just farming, but the entire economy. Yet it remains of concern that the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) Bill is being ... More >>
Proposed National Policy Statement threatens farming
Tuesday, 26 April 2011, 9:14 am | Federated Farmers
Farmers on the east coast of the North Island, only just recovering from several seasons of drought, could be dealt a crippling blow if a planned Government policy on managing biodiversity goes ahead unchanged. More >>
Rural broadband takes a step forward for 1.1 million kiwis
Wednesday, 20 April 2011, 2:18 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers is welcoming confirmation the $252 million increase for rural broadband it successfully lobbied for, will finally generate results for rural New Zealand. “Federated Farmers will continue talking with Government and the successful parties ... More >>
Import one pork disease, get the second one free?
Sunday, 17 April 2011, 12:06 pm | Federated Farmers
Proposals by the Ministry of Agricultural and Fisheries (MAF) to relax import health standards for raw pork from the United States, Canada, Mexico and the European Union (EU), is like playing Russian roulette with the entire agricultural sector. “Although ... More >>
Latest OIO application for the former CraFarms
Thursday, 14 April 2011, 8:41 pm | Federated Farmers
Federated Farmers believes the application by China’s Shanghai Pengxin Group Limited, though its locally owned subsidiary, Milk New Zealand Holding Limited, will be an acid test for revised Overseas Investment Office (OIO) rules More >>
