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A new Framework for Action on Animal Welfare released last month sets out a better approach, says Associate Agriculture Minister Meka Whaitiri.

Money spent on adding more layers of bureaucracy to our animal welfare regime would be better spent on addressing our horrific statistics on children, says Federated Farmers animal welfare spokesman Miles Anderson.

Farmers hope next week’s wool summit in Wellington will bring much needed action for New Zealand’s wool industry. 

Waikato Federated Farmers Vice President Jacqui Hahn is one of 15 dairy farmers chosen as New Zealand’s climate change ambassadors.

Federated Farmers president Katie Milne last month notched up one year in office. She told the recent Feds annual conference in Wellington about issues dominating her first 12 months in the role.

The A1 versus A2 debate has the potential to tear the industry apart.

Dunsandel farmer Michael Woodward may be Federated Farmers North Canterbury dairy chairman but his real passion is the angora goats he inherited from his father John.

Federated Farmers has a new board member as a result of elections held during last week’s national conference in Wellington.

Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor says a wide-ranging review of dairy industry legislation isn’t an attempt by the Government to force changes to Fonterra’s constitution.

Under DIRA, all dairy companies should be required to disclose how much they pay for milk, says Lloyd Downing, a Morrinsville dairy farmer and former Waikato Federated Farmers president.