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Federated Farmers say the 8.8% drop in the Global Dairy Trade yesterday will be disappointing to New Zealand dairy farmers but it is important not to jump to conclusions.

Federated Farmers is mobilising its members to help find the person threatening to contaminate infant formula with 1080 poison.

Federated Farmers has confirmed it has received a threat to sabotage New Zealand infant formula with the pesticide 1080.

Despite a smaller rise in the global dairy price index last week, farmers will be happy, says Federated Farmers Dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard. He says farmers were hoping for another big rise, similar to the previous two auctions but this did not eventuate.

More calls are fielded by Federated Farmers Southland about tough immigration criteria for migrants than about any other issue, says the region’s president Russell MacPherson.

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.