Displaying items by tag: Federated Farmers

Farmers are welcoming new Government proposals to make farm health and safety rules more practical and grounded in real-world farming.

There's been widespread support from the primary sector for the Government's move to put the brakes on local authorities to do any more work on planning changes ahead of major changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA).

Federated Farmers is vowing to keep the big banks accountable for their actions and to continue pushing for meaningful change in the rural lending sector.

Farmer perceptions of current economic conditions have risen to their highest level in almost a decade.

OPINION: For most farmers and readers, the term Sustainable Finance Taxonomy will make little sense.

Federated Farmers is arguing for controversial environmentalist group Greenpeace to be stripped of its charitable status.

OPINION: The 'Save Our Sheep' campaign is built on a foundation of structure, integrity, and evidence from the Federated Farmers Meat and Wool Council.

OPINION: Forget about the fabled 'rural-urban' divide, the real fault-line in farming might actually be the divide between grass-roots farmers and the industry corporates who claim to be 'speaking on behalf of farmers'.

Some farmers in the Nelson region are facing up to five years of hard work to repair their damaged properties caused by the recent devastating floods.

Federated Farmers is joining major industry-good bodies in not advocating for the Government to withdraw from the Paris Agreement.