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O'Conner says he had a very productive meeting with the group he once labelled ‘The National Party in Gumboots’ – Federated Farmers.

The global dairy price slide seems to be over and farmers are banking on happier days ahead.

Federated Farmers says it is time to move on after the Commerce Commission’s $2.97 million settlement with Westpac over the selling of interest rate swaps.

Federated Farmers is calling on the bee industry to unite and ensure they achieve a fully integrated entity peak body.

Despite dying winter feed crops and increasingly crisp pasture, losses due to the central South Island drought could still be ring-fenced to this season, says a dairy farmer representative in the hard hit region.

Farmers are reiterating their call for councils to end property value-based rating.

As usual in summer, some regions are drying out – some are getting extremely dry. The media is running hot with drought stories, from ‘experts’ on social media and in print.

It is time to end reliance on the current property-value based rating system says Federated Farmers.

Dairy farmers are still wary despite three successive lifts in global dairy auction prices.

Federated Farmers has undergone a major transition during the past four-five years.