Displaying items by tag: Federated Farmers
Slow learners?
Our old mate does wonder about the financial acumen of brain’s trust running Federated Farmers these days!
Nice speech, but...
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”.
Ambassadors don their farm boots
It's not every day that New Zealand farmers get high ranking European diplomats through their farm gates.
A dangerous precedent
A proposal by the Timaru District Council (TDC) to extend setbacks in rural areas is raising eyebrows.
Praise for associate director scheme
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.
Nitrogen fertiliser ban not the answer
Red rag to a bull?
Burning hope for change
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.
Parker refuses to bend
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.
OAD arrives early in Southland
Some dairy farmers in Southland are already moving to once a day (OAD) milking because they don’t have sufficient good pasture on which to graze their stock.