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Feds frustrated by winter grazing rules

Fed Farmers Colin Hurst says the new rules will force thousands of farmers to apply for expensive resource consents for next season’s winter grazing.

Federated Farmers is “hugely frustrated” that new intensive winter grazing rules came into force on November 1.

Cut land sales to foreign foresters!

New research has found close to two thirds of Kiwis don't support foreign companies buying New Zealand farms to offset their emissions.

Research commissioned by Federated Farmers and Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) has found almost two thirds of Kiwis oppose foreign companies buying New Zealand farms to offset their emissions.

The mission to save Mangaohane Station from pines

Hawke's Bay farmer and businessman Mike Barham is behind a bid to stop Mangaohane Station being turned into a huge pine plantation.

A bid to stop a large, iconic sheep and beef station in the central North Island being turned into a huge pine plantation is underway.

Fonterra welcomes DIRA report

Fonterra chairman Peter McBride says the co-op is satisfied that legislation is moving in the right direction.

Fonterra is welcoming key changes made to a bill before Parliament that will finalise the co-operative's new capital structure.

Distance learning more likely in the future

Paul Kenyon believes students have learned to be more self-reliant and independent because during lockdown they had to learn by themselves.

Massey University's School of Agriculture and Environment head says in the future it's likely that more students will do their degrees part time.

More time needed!

Ben Allomes is calling on the Government to give farmers more time to properly understand and digest the huge raft of changes it is trying to push through before next year’s election.

Democracy by stealth – that’s how a highly-respected dairy industry leader Ben Allomes is describing the present Government’s consultation with farmers over agricultural emissions and other issues.

A united front!

Multiple submissions are heading in from top farming groups to the Government in response to its deeply unpopular agricultural emissions proposal.

Record profit for Alliance Group

Alliance Group has announced a record profit of $117.2 million for the year ending 30 September 2022.

Graduate scheme attracts new vets to rural NZ

32 graduate vets will begin their careers in rural New Zealand, with a financial boost from the Government’s Voluntary Bonding Scheme for Veterinarians (VBS), according to Acting Agriculture and Rural Communities Minister Meka Whaitiri.