Displaying items by tag: Federated Farmers

Oamaru vet Dr Merlyn Hay, who in 2017 outed Mycoplasma bovis on an Oamaru dairy farm, won the premier award at the Feds conference.

It's time to bring primary industry marketers onto farms, says Han Johr, corporate head of agriculture at Nestle.

Federated Farmers' conference last week was a great success, says president Katie Milne.

Hold your local council candidates to account on costs and services: and if you think the voice of farmers is not being heard, consider standing for election yourself.

Farmers are bracing for a major animal rights campaign against their winter grazing practices.

Richard McIntyre, head of Federated Farmers sharemilkers section, was right on the money when he described plans to introduce the Farm Debt Mediation Bill as long overdue.

The New Zealand Bankers’ Association has welcomed the news that the government will introduce a Bill to parliament to set up a farm debt mediation scheme.

It's long overdue. That’s the reaction of the chair of Federated Farmers sharemilkers section to the government’s plan to introduce the Farm Debt Mediation Bill.

Farmers are happy to see that workforce issues are identified as a hot topic in the National Party’s ‘Primary Sector Discussion Document’, released today.

Dairy farmers are facing two big challenges in falling land prices and increasingly restricted access to capital, says the Australasian financial advisor Findex.