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PASTORAL FARMERS in the Lake Rotorua catchment await with trepidation the outcome of new rules on the amount of nitrogen they will be able to leach from their land.

Federated Farmers and Irrigation NZ hope to build interest in the Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme with their free event next Tuesday.

Federated Farmers chief executive Graham Smith last week spoke at the Future Farms Conference in Wellington. Here are excerpts from his speech.

By Rick Powdrell is Federated Farmers Meat & Fibre chairperson

TATUA MEMBERS of Federated Farmers are welcoming an all time record payout by a New Zealand milk processor at $9 per kilogram of milk solids (kg/MS) for the 2013/14 season.

Farmers are backing Reserve Bank Governor Graeme Wheeler's comments that the high New Zealand dollar is unjustified and unsustainable.

There is a clear political mandate for reform of the Resource Management Act, says Federated Farmers.
Feds president Dr William Rolleston says vital reforms to the RMA have been stalled for want of support from National's partners in the last Parliament.

Dairy farmers in the Horizons Regional Council area have each spent an average $110,000 on environmental management in the past five years.

FEDERATED FARMERS is asking whoever forms the next government for an additional $600 million investment into science research and innovation over the next three years.

IF WE DON'T look after all natural pollinators, particularly the honey bee, we could see economic and social collapse, says John Hartnell, Federated Farmers Bees chairperson and a Christchurch-based exporter of bee products.