Federated Farmers Grain & Seed
Key Challenges Facing Growers
Federated Farmers Grain & Seed Industry Group represents the interests of arable sector farmers.
Key challenges facing the arable industry are issues around pricing, biosecurity, use and sourcing of supplementary stock feed and ensuring that growers are kept up-to-date with a flow of information.
Information gathering has been particularly important for growers over the past year with high fluctuations in pricing causing concern for the Grain & Seed farmers on how to achieve the best price for their product.
Federated Farmers Grain & Seeds produces a newsletter for members called the Arable Bulletin.
Representation
The Grain & Seed chairman is Ian Morten.
You can contact Ian: orariest@xtra.co.nz or the Grain & Seed policy advisor Carly Sluys on 0800 327 646 or csluys@fedfarm.org.nz.
The Grain & Seed executive includes representation in the form of United Wheatgrowers, Herbage Seedgrowers and Maize Growers.
Meetings and Networks
Many Federated Farmers provinces have a Grain & Seed chairman who leads a local group of growers.
In North and Mid-Canterbury these groups meet on a monthly basis. In North Canterbury and the Waikato the maize section meets as and when required.
These groups tend to deal with local issues such as stubble burning regulations, Resource Management Act compliance and local product contracts. They also feed information back into the national network.
The Grain & Seed annual general meeting is held in conjunction with the Federated Farmers One Event. Federated Farmer member growers are most welcome to attend.
United Wheatgrowers Electoral Committee Meeting
This year's Electoral Committee Meeting is scheduled to be held on Thursday 27 November 2008 at the Commodore Hotel Copthorne, Memorial Avenue, Christchurch, commencing with lunch at 12:30pm.
To read the Agenda for the Electoral Committee Meeting, together with Director Election notices for 2008 simply download the files listed below.
If you wish to attend contact:
Allison Brook of Brown Glassford & Co Ltd, secretary for United Wheatgrowers, by either
Phone 03 365 0881, fax 03 3772 991, email: allison.brook@brownglass.co.nz. To confirm your attendance and also advise if you require any accommodation or air travel to be arranged.
Wheat Grower Awards
The Grain & Seed industry group work with Ravensdown Fertilisers to promote arable production. Federated Farmers Grain & Seeds hosts the Wheat Grower Awards at its annual conference.
Agreements To Grow
Federated Farmers has specialised contracts available for purchase. These include agreements-to-grow for silage and grains. Members receive a substantial discount on contracts.
