Displaying items by tag: Federated Farmers
Tech developers should first talk to farmers
Federated Farmers Dairy chairman and Manawatu farmer Andrew Hoggard recently addressed the MobileTech Conference.
‘Let’s unclog the Red Band channels’
Federated Farmers Dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard questions whether Fonterra is truly representing NZ values and culture.
Farmers like NZX futures trading
Potential blackgrass incursion
Federated Farmers and other arable industry groups are working with MPI following the detection of blackgrass seeds.
IrrigationNZ and Feds ask for scientific integrity
IrrigationNZ and Federated Farmers say greater scrutiny of claims irrigation causes increased 'rumbly-gut' is needed.
Get down and dirty, you dumb critics
Jail time for 1080 scaremonger
Dairy industry leaders have welcomed the successful prosecution of a businessman who threatened to spike infant formula with 1080.
Tectonic shift erodes Fonterra’s global influence
Fonterra doesn't believe it will take much to change the global dairy market, but it expects very little change this year.
Time for a second green revolution
Banks urged to pass on OCR cut
Federated Farmers has welcomed the Reserve Bank's decision to cut the Official Cash Rate by 25 basis points to 2.25%.