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- Media Releases 2012
- Media Releases 2012
- Federated Farmers promotes farming facts
- Farmers say ‘let it rain’ exports
- First drought now a hail alert for southern farmers
- Getting back upon the sheep’s back
- Southern farmers at last 'singing in the rain'
- John Hartnell is a deserved finalist
- Shear hard work makes shearing a sport
- Quad bike sales positive economic news
- Federated Farmers welcomes latest internet cable proposal
- A bigger world stage for sheep shearing goes viral
- Turning off the taps of regulated raw milk
- Europe dampens farmer confidence, survey shows
- Hawke’s Bay faces a ‘dam’ good future
- Changes to dairy regulation won’t make milk cheaper
- Canada Geese moult cull finished
- CraFarm ‘victor’ still has hurdles to jump
- 2011 Farm Toll four less than 2010
- James Cameron's titanic opportunity in farming
- Media Releases 2011
- Media Releases 2011
- Prominent farm leader to chair new Innovation Board
- Global food price increases a boost for all Kiwis
- Fishing rights shouldn’t trample property rights
- Overseas trade surges thanks to farmers
- Wool research investment welcomed
- Holiday rain welcomed with open arms
- Our harbours of shame
- ATV accidents down but a poor year for farm safety
- CPI spike poses challenge to economic policy
- Latest farm confidence survey ‘a tale of two islands’
- Golden Bay floods highlight river management flaws
- New Tararua Provincial President welcomed
- Unsurprising OCR hold but political leaders need to lead
- Overseas trade boost continues thanks to farmers
- Rural Broadband demands a step change to deliver future proofing
- New EPA could tame the RMA
- Farmers recruit the dung beetle
- Food is the new black as commodities rise
- Get ‘out in the paddock’ with Farm Day 2011
- Ovine varietals the future of meat
- All eyes on PGG Wrightson takeover
- Is broadband ambitious for rural New Zealand?
- Dairy Council meet brings together industry leaders
- Government books need to be brought under control
- MAF gets a Federated Farmers bouquet for DIRA consultation
- Prime Minister backs Federated Farmers on a Ministry for Primary Industries
- Easement may ease transmission line work
- One month till Federated Farmers Farm Day 2011
- Wool cooperative down but not necessarily out
- Farmers ‘can do’ quad bike safety guidelines
- Telecom and Vodafone reject rural New Zealand
- Canterbury earthquake 2011
- Can you accommodate displaced Christchurch residents and rescue workers?
- Canterbury earthquake Wednesday update
- Rural Women urgent request for portable toilets and petrol for disabled and elderly
- Finding an employment cloud in agriculture’s silver lining
- As commodities soar, so does the risk of fraud
- Petrol stations re-opening, refuelling - update
- Supermarkets open for business and emergency supplies available
- Power outages and road closures around Christchurch, Sumner, Port Hills and Lyttelton - update
- Big clean up being co-ordinated, expected to start tomorrow
- Animal well-being always a priority
- Canterbury earthquake Friday update
- Earthquake scammer also targets farmers
- Power outages and road closures around Christchurch, Sumner, Port Hills and Lyttelton - update
- Petrol stations re-opening, refuelling - Friday update
- Supermarkets and food availability in Christchurch - Friday update
- Christchurch clean up starts Saturday at 630am
- Special equipment request – clarification
- Canterbury earthquake update call for volunteers and help
- ‘Farmy Army’ removes 1,000 tonnes of earthquake debris from residential properties
- 200,000 litres of water carried daily into Christchurch
- ‘Just the start’ as farmers and volunteers plough into earthquake cleanup
- 'Farmy Army’ in need of good homes and schools to help
- Calling all able-bodied farmers and their wheel barrows, to help clean up Christchurch
- Farmers to 'Meat the needs of Christchurch' by donating meat and wool
- Help Christchurch by donating meat and wool
- Canterbury earthquake – Council-led clean-up ends Saturday evening
- Farmy Army demobs Saturday, to reform mid-March
- Canterbury earthquake Saturday update
- Federated Farmers North Canterbury Farm Day cancelled
- Northland Farm Day is all about fun in the sun
- Help the eastern suburbs by delivering hot meals prepared by the Federated Farmers team
- Federated Farmers Farm Day 2011 this Sunday near you
- Earthquake OCR cut welcomed by Federated Farmers
- ‘Super’ primary industries Ministry supercharges agriculture
- Be wary of employment contracts touted by email
- Farmy Army mobilises for this weekend
- Federated Farmers Farm Day a huge success so far
- Trucking around at South Canterbury Farm Day
- New ECAN chief needs to bring new thinking
- Regulatory Standards Bill welcomed with open arms
- Farmers happy Canada Geese finally declared a pest
- Farmers hitting Clean Streams Accord targets
- Claims Canada Geese will be poisoned grossly irresponsible
- Milk ‘has not been cheaper’ in Australia
- Federated Farmers Farm Day 2011 wraps up
- Fonterra half-year results ‘just what the IMF ordered’
- Consumer groups combine to call for Telco law changes
- Can you export a biosecurity incursion from NZ into NZ?
- Livestock by-law should be scrapped
- Earthquake Commission working on full assessments
- Farmy Army heroes invited to What Now Family SLAM
- First ever funniest farming video competition underway
- Farmers welcome Commerce Commission preliminary analysis
- New FMG product emerges from last September’s storms
- Farmers cautious following bullish Reserve Bank outlook
- New game animal council will need to walk the talk
- Latest OIO application for the former CraFarms
- Retail milk prices a storm in a latte cup
- Import one pork disease, get the second one free?
- Rural broadband takes a step forward for 1.1 million kiwis
- Proposed National Policy Statement threatens farming
- Hon Rodney Hide to speak at Federated Farmers Otago Annual General Meeting
- Hawke’s Bay storm - effect on stock and farms
- OCR hold sends pre-Budget message
- Beef+Lamb – NZTE initiative will boost exports
- Biosecurity fundamental but NAIT questions remain
- Hawke’s Bay farmers welcome adverse event declaration
- Quarter of a million rural customers should expect cheaper mobile rates
- Farming wages well ahead of non-farm wages, Rabobank / Federated Farmers survey shows
- Proposed landowner duck hunt tax is poorly camouflaged greed
- Water marks New Zealand as the real ‘lucky country’
- Farmers express hopes for NPS on freshwater management
- Financial Stability Report warns farms aren’t an ATM
- Agricultural Production Statistics show a lack of intensity
- Fonterra’s Brazilian opportunity
- ‘Turnover does not equal profit’ Federated Farmers says of Dominion Post taxation story
- Budget 2011 ‘boring in a positive way’
- Federated Farmers’ Adverse Events Trust makes first Christchurch donation
- Forecast milk price of 66 cents per litre holds steady
- Animal ID scheme delay ‘prevents an agricultural INCIS’
- No bees, no food, no people
- Gypsy Day 2011 well underway
- Fat bee or skinny bee, you can be the difference
- Bees are just 500 grams from a disaster
- Why the Bee team is the A team
- Farmers protecting biodiversity ‘equivalent to two national parks’
- Forest & Bird and Federated Farmers praise report on 1080
- Proposed biosecurity ‘partnerships’ a can of worms
- Today Canada Geese lose all protection
- OCR hold but farmers warned to expect increases in the cost of borrowing
- Canterbury June earthquake - Federated Farmers update
- Agriculture outlook hails an agricultural sunrise
- All Canterbury members, has your farm been affected?
- Farmy Army starts Saturday
- Farmy Army joint operation starts Saturday
- Farmy Army/SVA manual operations to resume Tuesday due to weather
- How Christchurch residents can request silt removal
- Federated Farmers Vice-Presidential candidates
- Green Party livestock antibiotic claims proved wrong
- Shortlist for the Agribusiness Person of the Year Award at Federated Farmers 2011 National Conference
- Farmy Army/SVA aim for big push Thursday and Friday
- Little footsteps support Hawke’s Bay Farmers
- Weed Eating Rust Fungus gets ERMA approval
- Federated Farmers backs New Zealand Merino purchase
- Dominion Post publishes correction after Federated Farmers complaint
- Exports worth more than a Rugby World Cup a week
- Farmy Army/SVA achieves great things….again
- Bruce Wills elected as Federated Farmers President
- Dr William Rolleston elected as Federated Farmers Vice-President
- Federated Farmers elects new national board
- New agricultural era dawns with cooperative partnerships
- Huge improvement on Waikato dairy compliance statistics
- New Fonterra CEO inspiring
- More taxes do not make the cake bigger
- Inflation of concern to farmers
- Farm confidence survey shows ‘grass is becoming greener’
- Farmers and stock take winter blast in their stride
- Kiwi dollar hits trade surplus, worrying farmers
- European grain-fed beef deal, ‘great for farmers’
- Commerce Commission milk decision correct
- Allied Farmers retail store sale to RD1 ‘great news’
- Cancer study just one piece of the puzzle
- Farmy Army ‘Sunday Roast Packs’ for Christchurch’s eastern suburbs
- Possible milk price inquiry premature and confusing
- Heavy snow expected across eastern New Zealand, Sunday and Monday
- Farmers welcome further Rural Broadband infrastructure
- Agriculture key to prosperity, says Finance Minister
- Farmers and livestock standing up to polar blast
- Farmers to engage positively on Livestock Tax review
- Stock shelter vital says MAF and Federated Farmers
- Federated Farmers Dairy to work with organic members
- A Labour MP’s ‘meating of minds’ with Federated Farmers
- Dairy farmers hail Te Waihora rehabilitation as a template
- Greater Wellington’s dairy farmers as compliance heroes
- Farmers applaud ‘realistic’ energy strategy
- Farmers welcome Fonterra certainty
- Compulsory animal ID, farmers need the where, what, whens and how’s
- Being the ‘First XV’ of Biosecurity
- Doha trade round a greater priority than climate change
- Bright future for ‘NZ Inc’ if Fonterra remains a cooperative
- New Zealand hosting the RWC of biotechnology excites farmers
- Irrigation joins a fresh start for water
- Select Committee Milk Inquiry 'a parliament too early’
- ETS panel and Government listen to Federated Farmers
- Agricultural vehicle transport regulations review ‘spot on’
- Sir Michael Fay led bid for the former CraFarms
- A green economy is paying our way in the world
- Dairy industry looks forward to working with Fonterra’s new CEO
- Meat and fibre exports show industry strength
- Farmers unhappy at OAG water report
- Westland Milk Products delivers more economic cheer
- Tatua delivers a dairy cooperative trifecta
- Mackenzie sheep ‘stolen for a particular market’
- LIC-DairyNZ impasse unacceptable
- Second consecutive food price fall shows the market works
- Labour returns to ‘Nanny State’ politics
- Labour’s High Country policy has multiple flaws
- Sharemilking agreement gets a major makeover
- Revised payout no reason to panic
- Federated Farmers Manifesto official launch on Wednesday
- The farmers manifesto
- Federated Farmers welcomes new DairyNZ Directors
- Farmers mourn John Aspinall
- Farmers warn agricultural policies are ‘economic poker’
- Water investment a fresh start for water
- Federated Farmers gets runs on the board
- Trans Pacific Partnership positive for farmers and job seekers
- Police and Federated Farmers sign letter of agreement
- Biosecurity matters
- Trade is key
- Fonterra’s new era
- ‘Resource rentals’ will create more dairy farms
- Urgent recall of strawberry kits sold by The Warehouse
- The future of raw drinking milk
- Making the most of our reduced lamb crop
- The banks vote of confidence in our greenest clean tech industry
- The dairy industry’s next environmental step
- Dairy pathways survey key to New Zealand’s prosperity
- It is summer, so here’s Greenpeace (again) on PKE
- Farmy Army’s John Hartnell, a semi-finalist for the 2012 Kiwibank Local Heroes Award
- Federated Farmers backs Tales from the Back Country
- “David’s back” as the new Minister for Primary Industries
- Cannabis growers put on notice by Federated Farmers
- Dairying’s ‘can do’ on the environment and the economy
- Come on Environment Southland and work with your farmers
- A new start for the Kiwi goat industry
- Updated: The Farmy Army’s last operation today, 16 December
- Farmers positive about milk into schools trial
- What’s bugging Federated Farmers?
- The constant farmer this summer
- Have farms been damaged or lost utilities
- Federated Farmers update: Rural Canterbury seems okay
- Volunteering for Christchurch on Boxing Day and December 27
- Media Releases 2010
- Media Releases 2010
- If it’s getting hotter, then it’s time to store water
- Don’t be left out of pocket, sharemilkers warned
- GlobalDairyTrade fall not unexpected
- Federated Farmers backs restarting aquaculture
- Countdown to Federated Farmers Farm Day 2010
- Aquaculture is one of three pillars to grow the economy
- Farmers need to be prepared if drought takes hold
- Animal welfare prosecution
- Draft animal transport welfare code needs a diet
- Federated Farmers drought line reactivated
- Land tax fails to…with farmers
- Dairy industry awards in excellent health
- Water storage in the Hawke’s Bay applauded
- Fonterra’s $271 million capital ideal
- Pylons electrify farmers
- Farmers regain ‘mojo’, confidence survey shows
- HRH the Prince of Wales with Federated Farmers on wool
- NAIT – asset or liability?
- Call-In of Mackenzie applications a vital test
- Federated Farmers meets the Energy and Resources Minister
- International recession bites incomes, Rabobank/Federated Farmers Report shows
- Rain bad for some, good for others
- Reasons to farm weka
- Due diligence urged over Fonterra's Chinese operations
- Forest & Bird misinformed on high country issues
- Priorities for Key and English
- When Federated Farmers asks, the Government listens
- Federated Farmers busts 1080 myths in its latest magazine
- Taskforce report helps put wool ‘back on its own four-feet’
- Farmers slate Horizons lack of horizon on water
- Federated Farmers national spokesperson plays electricity peacemaker
- New dairy cattle code of welfare
- Making ECant an ECan
- Transmission lines grievance genuine
- Fonterra profit forecast positive
- Farming thumbs up to financial reporting decision
- 1 in 4 farm employees lack written employment agreements
- Raise driving standards and not the age
- Drivers licence harder than pilots licence
- Phantom foreign farm sales highlight due diligence hole
- Hold OCR but send a message, farmers urge
- Mad council decisions, part 40
- Farmers say well done Reserve Bank
- Federated Farmers welcomes cable proposal - Government must do more
- C’mon Rodney - let’s focus on the real issues
- American dairy farmer fears unfounded
- Fonterra rescues organic milk suppliers
- Don’t blame farmers for AgResearch cuts
- Rural broadband plan good first step, but needs more
- Electricity is farm critical, Select Committee told
- Clean streams report shows dairy’s openness
- ‘Never mind the b*llocks’, get into Federated Farmers Farm Day
- Farmers aim for the clouds - what broadband can offer rural New Zealand
- Federated Farmers to invite U.S. Senators to New Zealand
- Farming through Northland’s drought, on show this Sunday
- Fonterra on the right track
- Chinese investment into the New Zealand dairy industry
- Animal Welfare Bill well intentioned but needs focus
- Farmers back emergency call shake up
- Only one more sleep ’till Farm Day
- It’s all go for Farm Day
- Farm Day draws a great crowd
- Power outage doesn’t dampen Farm Day
- Farm Day a great success
- Canterbury deserves better
- New Zealand went country for Federated Farmers Farm Day
- Transport changes good news for farmers
- Positive developments in the ECan saga
- New Zealand goes where 26 other global alliance members don’t
- State of the art milk plant proposed for Darfield
- Lift in milk powder prices will lift confidence
- Farmers welcome discussions
- Farmers urge proactive attitude towards drought
- Horizons Crafar prosecution may cost unsecured creditors
- Transpower on another collision course with farmers
- Farmers call for more education for recreational ATV use
- Federated Farmers encouraged by U.S. talks
- Drought conditions will impact 2010/2011 dairy production
- Driving age to be lifted
- Federated Farmers challenges claims about Manawatu River
- Federated Farmers congratulates Beef & Lamb chairman
- KPMG misses the micro in the macro
- Drought widening essential to prevent double-dip recession
- Farmers market organisers urged to think about ANZAC morning
- ECan commissioners to get on with the job
- Federated Farmers urge farmers to keep contact
- Fonterra announcement must be kept in context
- Suspend the ETS until 2013, just like the Aussies
- Expert panel slams MAF import health standards for pork
- Farmers welcome the status quo
- Federated Farmers welcome signs of rebalancing
- Hunter Downs decision honourable and correct
- Farmers commend Parliament for changing price formula
- Foot and Mouth Disease vigilance urged due to foreign outbreaks
- Wellington Regional Council chair gets it right
- Criticism of high country tenure review repetitive and illogical
- $86 million ETS bill risks Government ‘being out of touch’ with farmers
- ETS will cost Kiwis $527 million + in its first year
- Budget - great tax incentives but little more for Vote Agriculture
- Fruit fly discovery a huge save for New Zealand
- Crafarm conditional sale highlights shallow capital markets
- Rain welcomed by new Federated Farmers Northland provincial president
- Fonterra Cooperative Group forecast cautiously welcomed
- The ETS’ cost ‘Unmerry-Go-Round’ from the PM down
- Primary sector research funding a positive step for agriculture
- Cash in on healthy grass fed milk, if Government permits
- Federated Farmers welcomes potential FTA
- 4.7 million more lambs needed to cover ETS costs
- Prime Minister to spend two hours with farmers and Southlanders in Invercargill
- ETS costs demand an extra 88,000 + dairy cows
- Feed theft very concerning
- Commodities boom for all except those who produce it
- Innovation rich dairy highlights challenges, opportunities and success
- O.N.Z.M for Tom Henderson richly deserved
- Agriculture recognised in Honours List
- New Slaughter Code raises problems for rural butchers
- International aviation fuel 100% purely exempt from ETS
- Pressure building for OCR rise but not yet, farmers argue
- Goff, Carter and Key to face farmers in Invercargill
- ETS agriculture regulations presumptive and premature
- Dam safety report backs Federated Farmers approach
- An end to ‘punitive and pointless’ gift duty in sight
- Grubby goose in line of fire
- Agribusiness Person of the Year in association with Ravensdown, Agri Personality of the Year and Agriculture’s Cream of the Crop, all at Federated Farmers 2010 National Conference
- Southland and Otago farmers - ‘take me to your leaders’
- Trespass unacceptable
- Federated Farmers advocates for farm safety
- Farmers welcome MTAS recommendation
- Importance of water storage a highlight in Agriculture Outlook Report
- Farmers propose re-rating rates, following Colmar Brunton poll
- Federated Farmers complaint against Michael Laws
- The crème of agriculture to be honoured in Invercargill
- Federated Farmers pleased to see Crown responsibilities for pest management
- Pastoral agriculture is New Zealand’s real point of difference
- Big game in little New Zealand
- Which future for Meat & Fibre?
- Minister of Agriculture to supply ETS costing analysis
- New Zealand’s 2010 Agri Business and Agri Personality named
- Farmers willing to take Prime Minister’s challenge
- Farmers remain a trusted profession
- Federated Farmers happy to see final Sheep and Beef Welfare Code is more workable
- Signs and Code a step in the right direction
- Momentous day for Fonterra Cooperative Group
- Ozzie Mozzie kicked for touch but the score remains one all
- Federated Farmers to build pressure for fast track ETS review
- CraFarm saga reaches the end, perhaps
- Super insect villain finally meets its match
- Young Federated Farmers staff off to Japan
- Federated Farmers welcomes RUC changes
- Otago University’s overseas consumer research ‘a wake-up’
- China’s got the cash, we’ve got the brains, let’s make lots of money?
- ACC changes provide good incentives
- 90-day widening gets the big tick from farmers
- Farmers call not to raise OCR vindicated by events
- Synlait Milk goes east with Bright Dairy & Food Co Limited
- Employment changes welcomed by farmers
- Federated Farmers backs meat industry strategy
- The ‘farm toll’ is reducing, argues farmers
- Get ready to celebrate the bee
- Hurunui River moratorium supported
- Fonterra Shareholders’ Council
- Farmer confidence dips slightly, farm confidence survey shows
- No country for farmers?
- Forest & Bird invited to set up drylands park itself
- Fertiliser Cooperative results show where farmers are investing
- Sheep and beef profitability underlines new horizon
- Announcement leaves farmers cautiously optimistic
- Timely review of regulated raw milk criteria
- MTAS announcement welcomed by farmers
- Jetstar versus ‘all day every day biosecurity’
- Local Government Bill necessary but not sufficient
- Federated Farmers not signing today, but intends to
- Federated Farmers ‘totally confident’ in New Zealand milk
- Invercargill farmers celebrate rates victory
- ‘Principles’ to guide Federated Farmers meat sector strategy contribution
- It’s raining primary growth partnerships
- Fonterra holds forecast as expected
- Farmers not on Forest & Bird’s artistic tête-à-tête
- Federated Farmers has One Plan under the microscope
- Government ‘not nearly ambitious enough’ for rural broadband
- Federated Farmers floats Manawatu River ‘People’s Accord’
- South Canterbury Finance
- Manawatu River Leaders’ Forum needs flexibility
- Federated Farmers take a positive step forward with Transpower
- Pasture renewal focus for latest National Farming Review
- Electricity is the main concern for North Canterbury farmers
- Canterbury earthquake: can you provide assistance or need assistance?
- Canterbury earthquake (Federated Farmers Sunday morning update)
- Canterbury earthquake (Federated Farmers Sunday afternoon update)
- Canterbury earthquake (Federated Farmers Sunday evening update)
- Canterbury earthquake (Monday update)
- Canterbury earthquake (Monday evening update)
- Canterbury earthquake (Federated Farmers Tuesday update)
- Farmers hold flood meeting
- Canterbury earthquake (Federated Farmers Tuesday afternoon update)
- What a week meeting and BBQ - Federated Farmers to hold meeting for earthquake affected farmers and families
- Farmers show rural damage to the Prime Minister
- Canterbury earthquake (Federated Farmers Wednesday update)
- Canterbury earthquake (Federated Farmers Thursday update)
- Canterbury earthquake (Federated Farmers earthquake meeting in Darfield)
- 500 farmers get earthquake update at Federated Farmers meeting
- Canterbury earthquake (Federated Farmers Saturday update)
- No time to increase the Official Cash Rate
- Risk of death if damaged silos are not taken seriously
- Lignite ‘gold’ for Southland’s economic development
- Farmer Manifesto offers sound advice to aspiring councillors
- Farmers hoping for ‘local’ warming
- Land and Water Forum report
- Federated Farmers asks for adverse event declaration
- Fonterra Cooperative profit announcement boosts confidence
- Federated Farmers calls for increased flexibility in employment laws
- Southland and South Otago farmers - help is on the way
- Bore pumps affected by Canterbury earthquake
- Canterbury earthquake week three update
- Severe weather in Southland and south Otago
- Stags shield defence boosts farmers
- Southland Storm 2010 - Saturday update
- Southland and South Otago farmer support hits the road
- Backyard blackmarket butchers blasted by Federated Farmers
- New overseas investment rules an important step
- Federated Farmers delivers food baskets
- Southland/south Otago adverse event - Tuesday update
- Federated Farmers post-storm meetings next week in Southland and South Otago
- Council ‘exit polls’ may skew Saturday’s results
- 150 farmers pack Wyndham for post-storm meeting
- Business unusual is the future of wool
- Southland animal welfare allegations raise a bigger issue
- Federated Farmers happy at ‘full review’ of Raw Milk Regulations
- Foreign land sales complex, so farmers need the detail
- Castlepoint Station book, by an American in the Wairarapa
- An independent biosecurity conducts authority?
- Keep OCR on hold, farmers urge
- Savings growth means no sacred cows
- Federated Farmers commends an ‘iron dad’ ironman
- Gift Duty’s end will help ‘save our farms’
- Joined-up approach to ATV safety backed
- Fonterra payout confirmation a ‘huge relief’
- ‘Get a real job like farming,’ Federated Farmers advises protestors
- Obama’s new climate
- Training and not age key to safer drivers, MP’s told
- Lake water quality trends upwards (if you study the report)
- Fast rural broadband critical to all New Zealanders
- Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan FTA moves – how the world has improved
- MAF Biosecurity NZ asked to suspend artificial pollination
- Farmers to boycott Mackenzie ‘imposium’
- Wool is in the farmers’ hands
- Government commended for making changes to employment law
- Westland Milk Products announcement welcomed
- Environment Canterbury Commissioners deliver ‘a lesson for Wellington’
- Farmers help shave trade deficit
- Drought-like conditions come months too soon
- Will summer 2011, be a re-run of 1989 for farmers?
- Tb free advances will flow from Government commitment
- OCR hold ‘only logical response’
- Time for broadband to hit the trenches and the airwaves
- Dairy matters
- Northland goes from drought to drought
- OIO clarification inline with Federated Farmers
- Federated Farmers seeks to improve the Banking Code
- Fonterra forecast helps…if you’re producing
- Let the dung beetles muck in
- Biosecurity law change loads costs on to industry
- Cancun a wake up call for New Zealand’s ETS
- 1984 comes to Animal Farm with ID scheme
- Waikato joins Northland in double drought
- Federated Farmers secures Liz McGruddy for water team
- Meetings underway to discuss Fonterra’s new structure
- REINZ farm sales data ‘farming in the real world’
- Rural security key in 111 review
- Weekend rain a long way from ending drought
- Taranaki Rural Support Trust drought update
- Hunters and farmers work towards safe hunting
- Government delivers ACC Christmas gift
- Natural Dairy CraFarm bid at a dead-end?
- Christmas the time to ham it up
- ETS review welcomed with open arms
- Top of the South farmers resilient but hoping for light rain to aid clean-up
- Media Releases 2009
- Media Releases 2009
- Spilled hydro water highlights untapped economic resource
- Survey shows banks snubbing Dr Bollard on farm business overdraft interest rates
- Rainfall reduces drought risk
- Value of the compulsory NAIT scheme questioned
- Hail storm hits North Canterbury farmers
- Latest Fonterra auction reveals need for independent review
- New report reveals farm input costs decline
- Female shearers work hard to break world record
- Grain price prediction turns positive
- Back growth by backing agriculture, Government told
- Fund Transmission Gully by scrapping the Waterview ‘Tunnel’
- Best in the world for animal transport
- Return of EU subsidies ‘neo-protectionism’
- Farm worker remuneration report bucks negative employment news
- Banks must follow suit by cutting business overdraft interest rates
- Fonterra revised payout, ‘tough but manageable for farm businesses’
- Dr Bollard backs Federated Farmers on interest rates call
- Feds claim their first bank interest rates result
- Farm Day website goes live
- Proposed RMA changes ‘an okay first stab’ says farmers
- Molesworth Station to host a Federated Farmers Farm Day
- Work time and logbook ‘sanity’ applauded
- Rolling maul of infrastructure rolls forward
- Will local government end the rates spiral?
- Hush payment to DoC signals time for RMA reform
- Windgate’ reflected in Meridian’s energy prices
- Children’s Day goes country with Federated Farmers Farm Day
- Everyone doesn’t know a farmer, statistics show
- Possible India Free Trade Agreement ‘massive’ for farmers
- Federated Farmers and Fonterra in industry talks
- SPEECH - Lachlan McKenzie opening address to Federated Farmers Dairy Council meeting
- VTNZ closures put a brake on motorists, the army and farmers
- Federated Farmers Dairy Council says go dairy
- Farmers’ prescription for the jobs summit
- Federated Farmers Dairy Council says go dairy
- Farewell to Jeanette
- Rain, hail, sleet or snow, today is Federated Farmers Farm Day
- ASEAN FTA boosts farmers and exporters
- CoF closures won’t keep anyone safe
- Latest FTA talks good news for New Zealand farmers
- End of decline for milk powder prices?
- Success for Federated Farmers Farm Day
- National Infrastructure Unit major step forward for New Zealand farmers
- Banks Should be Clear on Govt Guarantees costs
- Water storage grant expansion thirst-quencher for New Zealand farmers
- Flaws in Fonterra’s Effluent Improvement System
- Banks overdraft rates remain stubbornly high
- AgResearch and Lincoln University merger applauded
- Last of the big Official Cash Rate cuts?
- Federated Farmers saves farmers thousands of dollars
- Regional fuel tax decision avoids colour coded diesel
- Fast-tracking electricity projects will railroad farmers
- BEE happy with 150th anniversary of bees’ introduction to New Zealand
- Fonterra half-year results ‘none too shabby’
- Rabbit resurgence big headache for farmers
- Great Danes show the way on emissions trading
- Meat & Wool New Zealand must show value for money
- Auckland ‘Super City' must super size the farmers
- Rural New Zealand: 0 Cities: 1 on ultra fast broadband
- Farmers reminded about securing stock
- Thank the lord for farmers, GDP figures prove
- Bollard’s ‘jaw-jaw’ puts acid on the banks
- Trusting MAF on live sheep exports
- Federated Farmers backs Parliamentary Commissioner on the High Country
- New management broom for St James Station
- Health standards for pork a swine of a decision
- ‘Reality check’ time on emissions trading
- Federated Farmers drought line to be reactivated
- Canada Geese putting the ‘foul’ into waterfowl
- 0800 DROUGHT back for Gisborne/Wairoa farmers
- Vast majority of Otago’s dairy farmers responsible
- Federated Farmers steps up drought support for Hawke’s Bay
- Farmers welcome Telecom’s plan for broadband
- Way paved for 25 basis points cut to Official Cash Rate
- Fonterra is the toast of dairy farmers
- ETS not needed to meet Kyoto obligations
- Otago stadium shows how councils farm farmers
- Back bloody brilliant bees
- Dairy strategy the ‘way ahead’ for New Zealand
- Bees buzz around The Beehive
- Ravensdown to the rescue
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- Four Members of Parliament and a farming conference
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- Taking the gas out of the gas, an opportunity for young innovators
- Speaking frankly about Frank Brenmuhl
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- Results of new farm confidence survey ‘bad news for New Zealand’
- Farmers call for a 50 basis points OCR cut
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- Silver Fern Farms capital structure result, a step towards consolidation
- Minaret Station a victory for property rights
- Time to use one U.S. subsidy against another
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- Road to the future paved with smart charges
- Prosecute Greenpeace activists as pirates
- Fonterra’s capital idea applauded by Federated Farmers
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- Government backs Federated Farmers on international agricultural research
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- Rodney District Council’s back alley deal
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- Farmers raise concerns over management of police emergency
- Canada geese – a worldwide problem
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- Transpower appeal would be fruitless
- ACC levy shocker will hurt farming
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- Recession’s sharp edge cutting both ways
- 2010 Nuffield scholars announced
- Aussies likely to exclude agriculture in their ETS
- Vote for Molly Ploeg’s ‘Moogle Google’ doodle
- Vote for sheep in Google’s ‘Doodle 4 Google’
- Shareholders to decide first two parts of Fonterra’s capital structure review
- OCR risks ‘irrelevancy’ as Government spending caned
- Malaysian FTA ‘bagus’ for the New Zealand economy
- A+ for Regulatory Responsibility Taskforce report
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- 1,075,000 New Zealanders want rural broadband ‘fair go’
- Trading our way up the OECD ladder
- Anders Crofoot elected NZ Grassland Association President
- Revised Fonterra payout provides farm and economic relief
- Bee a hero
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- The future of perpetual compensation for power lines
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- Monetary policy works, so why isn’t it?
- Federated Farmers gets in behind Books in Homes
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- Greenpeace ‘lost’ in its anti-farming obsession
- UK to ditch plans for biosecurity cost-sharing
- Massive potential to grow New Zealand agriculture, report shows
- Federated Farmers takes cold comfort from ETS lobbying
- Good Farm Stories go online
- Dubai illustrates global economic fragility
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- Farmers applaud bold electricity reform
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- T150 still in sight
- Hailstorm havoc in central mainland
- Farmers not the only victims of ATVs
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- Time to turn off the taps of stimulus
- Lamb to be king of the plates this Christmas
- Caution urged on farm sales
- Reducing livestock’s ‘not so long’ emissions shadow
- Xero and Federated Farmers join forces
- NIWA called upon to correct major error
- Fonterra’s pharmaceutical offer
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- Poison honey issue isolated
- Government stalls High Country rent hearings
- Extend building code changes to RMA
- Chief Executive resigns
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- Rush not worth risk
- DoC, stop fighting farmers and save money
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- Federation monitoring dry
- Farmers dispute cull claims
- High freight costs a kick in the guts
- Farm worker remuneration report released
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- T150 - Target $150 a lamb
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- Build dams not cycle lanes
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