Displaying items by tag: Federated Farmers
Let farmers farm!
Federated Farmers has set out what it calls the rural roadmap that it wants the next government to implement.
Bank irks Feds
Farmers have expressed alarm at some banks setting targets to reduce emissions at a time when the sector is under growing financial strain.
Rural sector 'didn't ask for banking inquiry'
Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor says the Government didn’t hold an inquiry into rural banking because the sector didn’t ask for one.
Strange bedfellows
OPINION: This old mutt understands that Federated Farmers has recently ceased the production of its monthly publication Fed News, as the economic realities of producing the paper have hit home.
Politicians to go head-to-head in Rural Issues Debate
Leading figures from major political parties will be grilled on their primary sector policies at the inaugural Rural Issues Debate at Mystery Creek Events Centre on 14 September.
Death by a thousand cuts?
South Canterbury farmers are worried about continuing to farm their land, with a local council bringing in rules around the Sites and Areas of Significance to Māori (SASM).
What partnership?
Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford has joined the chorus of opposition to the Government's proposed emissions reduction plan.
Lower milk price forecasts dampen feed crop prospects
The arable sector will feel the impacts of cuts to forecast milk payments to New Zealand’s dairy farmers, says Federated Farmers arable vice-president grains, Andrew Darling.
Emissions pricing plan 'tone-deaf'
Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford says the Government’s recently released emissions pricing plan is ‘tone-deaf’.
Concerns over 'non recovery'
Six months on from Cyclone Gabrielle, a farming leader says the so called ‘recovery’ is almost non-existent.