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Quota split a major worry

Meat Industry Association chief executive Sirma Karapeeva says discussions with the EU and UK has been frustratingly slow.

New Zealand meat exporters want the EU and UK to get serious on reaching a deal on post-Brexit quotas.

NZ meat exports at risk

The meat industry is warning that processing and exporting jobs are in jeopardy unless specialist migrants are allowed to remain in the country.

Nearly half of our country’s meat exports are at risk unless there is urgent action by government to allow migrant workers to stay in New Zealand.

Burning hope for change

Helicopters with monsoon buckets attack the big Lake Ohau fire. Photo: Ned Dawson/FENZ.

Federated Farmers is hoping for changes to the Department of Conservation's (DoC) high country grazing rules in the aftermath of two recent big wildfires in the Mackenzie Basin.

Council admits its failures

Shareholders Council chair James Barron has admitted in its submission to the review steering group that the council is failing to achieve the trust and respect of its farmers.

The Fonterra Shareholders Council admits that it’s failing to achieve the trust and respect of its farmers.

Seasonal worker facility opened

Minister of Maori Development Nanaia Mahuta and Ngai Tukairangi Trust chair Ratahi Cross at the official opening of the facility.

A new state of the art accommodation facility for RSE or temporary overseas workers at a large Māori kiwifruit orchard in the Bay of Plenty has been opened by the Minister of Māori Development, Nanaia Mahuta.

Vege crops at risk of rotting

Growers are warning consumers to brace for significant price increases for vegetables.

Fruit and vegetable growers are warning their produce will be left unpicked and rotting in the fields unless the Government approves urgent visas for overseas workers.

Another Fonterra shareholder revolt in the offing

Lumsden farmer Tony Paterson is having another go at next month’s Fonterra annual meeting to revamp the troubled Shareholders Council.

A group of Fonterra shareholders are having another go at next month’s annual meeting to force a revamp of the troubled Shareholders Council.

Sheep and beef farms carbon neutral

New research shows that New Zealand sheep and beef farms are already offsetting the majority of their agricultural emissions.

Payout lifts

The forecast milk payout for this season has gone up by 40c and Fonterra farmers can thank Chinese consumers.

Parker refuses to bend

Hundreds of farmers, business people and others from the wider Southland community gathered in Gore and Invercargill earlier this month to express concerns about the impacts of the new freshwater regulations.

Southland Federated Farmers vice president Bernadette Hunt says she finds it “interesting” that Environment Minister David Parker continues to downplay the feedback on the Government’s freshwater regulations.