Displaying items by tag: Federated Farmers

Farmers want the Government to open available space in managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) to bring in much-needed workers for the primary industries.

For years, as a sheep farmer Bruce Wills spent hundreds of hours with a hand-piece cleaning up daggy sheep. Now he's spending hundreds of hours with a pair of secateurs pruning grape vines.

High Country farmers are questioning the Government’s motives and the legality of its proposed reforms to pastoral land legislation.

OPINION: After years of fighting over farming, freshwater and sustainability Federated Farmers and Fish & Game are trying to kiss and make up.

Our old mate does wonder about the financial acumen of brain’s trust running Federated Farmers these days!

OPINION: Publisher Stuff and lobby group Federated Farmers both like to preach about their respective high-minded virtues – Stuff, about “funding journalism”, Feds about “supporting our farming communities”.

It's not every day that New Zealand farmers get high ranking European diplomats through their farm gates.

A proposal by the Timaru District Council (TDC) to extend setbacks in rural areas is raising eyebrows.

Federated Farmers dairy vice chairman Richard McIntyre says the associate director scheme run by DairyNZ is awesome and he would thoroughly recommend it to anyone.

OPINION: Synthetic nitrogen fertiliser is suffering from a PR problem in New Zealand.