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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.

A dairy farmer ‘dragging the chain’ on effluent management has let the team down, says Federated Farmers Dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard, commenting on a recidivist polluter who has copped a record fine for environment non-compliance in Taranaki.

This tough year is the time for young people to get the foot in the door to sharemilking, says Feds sharemilker chairman Neil Filer.

Federated Farmers believes that the continuing fall in fuel prices should result in lower farm input costs.