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New Zealand trucking operators are paying more than double the amount in road taxes for some heavy vehicles compared to their Australian counterparts and that has a direct impact on freight costs for farmers, says Road Transport Forum chief executive officer Ken Shirley.

An international celebration of the Angus cattle breed is coming to New Zealand, exactly 150 years after Angus farming was introduced to our shores.

A farmer-led Canterbury Water Forum will tomorrow challenge environmental preconceptions about farming typified by the front page of today's Dominion Post.

Water has been a divisive issue for New Zealanders, but as one of 60 stakeholders and five iwi to agree with the Land & Water Forum's second report, Federated Farmers is looking to move forward.

Leading experts will be sharing their insights at the second DairyNZ Farmers' Forum to be held in Hamilton on May 23-24.