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Just one honey jar entering this country from Australia could spell disaster for our bees, warns Federated Farmers.

Federated Farmers is welcoming Beef+Lamb NZ's Economic Service confirming declines in the national sheep flock and beef herd may now be at an end. It also confirms the North Island has become the dominant island for both sheep and beef.

Federated Farmers Dairy chairman Willy Leferink is saddened by Colin Armer's exit from Fonterra board.

Federated Farmers says John Wilson is the right man to lead Fonterra.

With the official cash rate due out on Thursday, farmer confidence at the beginning of the 2012-13 season has plummeted in Federated Farmers latest farm confidence survey.

New Zealanders will be able to size up the president of Federated Farmers for themselves this Saturday, with Country Calendar featuring the farm and work of Bruce Wills. The episode airs on TV One Saturday at 7pm.

DAIRY FARMERS have to accept they are the target of a rapidly increasing number of evangelistic environmentalists.

If the $840 million sale of TelstraClear to Vodafone gets regulatory approval, it could strengthen the financial case for an enhanced rural broadband offer by Vodafone.

A "global dairy crisis" could be good for New Zealand dairy farmers, says Federated Farmers.

The New Zealand Emissions Trading scheme (ETS) has taken a big step towards forward, yet remains the harshest treatment of any agricultural production system on Earth.