Silver Fern Farms Opens Applications for Board-Appointed Farmer Director Role
Applications for Silver Fern Farms Co-operative's next board-appointed farmer director are open.
OPINION: The Hound hears that a slickly choreographed Silver Fern Farms roadshow went astray recently when faced with fired up farmer feedback in Kurow.
Chair Rob Hewett apparently shut down questions on the march of forestry being escalated by companies like SFF by instead simply singing his own praises in a valedictory-type speech.
One farmer asked the silently stone-faced board line-up, 'what happens to carbon zero beef when we literally run out of offsets, do we keep planting trees until there is no land for beef?'
The question still echoes around the hills, unanswered.
New Zealand dairy farmers are set to be the first in the world to receive access to a new digital physical milk pricing tool that enables them to fix the price for their physical milk.
State farmer Pāmu is opening its farm gates this summer in an effort to give the rural sector the opportunity to see how large-scale, multi-system farming is delivering productivity and profitability across New Zealand.
A five-year study has found that the cost of reducing emissions without technology may be significant and unsustainable for Northland dairy farmers.
DairyNZ says Waikato farmers need certainty on Plan Change 1, but they say that certainty must be matched with practical, workable rules and a clear transition that doesn't get ahead of the new resource management system currently under review.
While the Government has moved quickly to make commercial hauliers' lot easier during the current fuel crisis, they appear to be stuck in the creep box when it comes to the agricultural industry.
Waikato farmers have been told that the Government’s new planning system legislation and the region’s Plan Change 1 (PC1) “won’t mesh together very well”.

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