Displaying items by tag: Federated Farmers

Climate change policy and the emissions trading scheme (ETS) are farmers’ biggest concerns.

As well as laying out its new strategy, Fonterra should make clearer how it got into this trouble, says Federated Farmers national vice-president and dairy farmer Andrew Hoggard.

Your old mate just about choked on his bone when he read a media release from the multinational, tax dodging, perennially anti farming organisation Greenpeace calling on Feds to stop “kicking farmers”.

DairyNZ Director Ben Allomes says farmers need to change with the times and adopt practices that are good for their animals and the environment.

Misgivings about the practicality and cost of a firearms register are likely to dominate feedback from rural people on the second round of proposed Arms Act amendments, says Federated Farmers.

Not content with slapping extra costs on the country’s farmers in the form of an ETS tax, impossible targets to cut methane and impending charges to improve water quality, the Government now wants more.

Farmers regarded Nathan Guy as a pragmatic and knowledgeable Minister for Primary Industries, says Federated Farmers.

In a historic move, 11 primary sector groups have agreed to work with the Government to tackle climate change.

Rural contractors have challenged MPI and Federated Farmers over the management of Mycoplasma bovis.

Government policy settings are presently farmers’ biggest worry, says Federated Farmers president Katie Milne.