Federated Farmers of New Zealand
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New Zealand's leading rural sector organisation, Federated Farmers of New Zealand represents 17,000 member farmers and rural families throughout New Zealand. A network of 24 provinces, together with associated area networks or branches, provides a locally based, democratic organisation that gives farmers a collective voice nationally and within each province.
Federated Farmers is welcoming the Call-In decision on the Mackenzie Basin applications.
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The National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) Scheme has been given approval to proceed by Cabinet.
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Federated Farmers is looking forward to working on a commonwealth-led initiative being championed by HRH the Prince of Wales, to reignite wool as the fashion fibre of choice.
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Farmer confidence in the economy has significantly improved from the ‘depression-like’ levels recorded six months ago, according to Federated Farmers’ latest farm confidence survey.
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Monday’s outage of electricity in Auckland, and the actions of a Waikato farmer, reflects widespread frustration about compensation for electricity transmission infrastructure.
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HAWKE'S BAY — News that Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has commenced a detailed feasibility study for water storage infrastructure to serve central Hawke’s Bay, is being applauded by Federated Farmers.
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A 27 percent surge in entries for the 2010 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards has been hailed by one of the sponsors, Federated Farmers, as evidence of the dairy industry’s vitality.
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Federated Farmers is concerned the Government is too focused on slicing the tax pie ever smaller, rather than growing the New Zealand economy.
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NORTHLAND — Federated Farmers welcomes the Government’s rapid response today to declare the Northland region to be in a medium scale adverse event.
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In its submission late last year on the draft Animal Welfare (Transport within New Zealand) Code of Welfare, Federated Farmers has called on the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) to focus on a slimmed-down code for commercial transport.
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Federated Farmers says Monday’s prosecution of a farmer, who ill-treated livestock, sends an important message.
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While Northland, along with parts of central Otago, Canterbury, Gisborne and inland Bay of Plenty, are facing extreme dry conditions, Federated Farmers is hopeful drought may still be averted.
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Federated Farmers believes aquaculture, along with minerals and the agricultural sector, provides three pillars for the transformation of the New Zealand economy.
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With just over 80 days until the last Sunday in March (28 March), 24 farming families around the country are now in top gear as they prepare to welcome visitors onto their farms for Federated Farmers Farm Day 2010.
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Federated Farmers submission on restarting aquaculture has called for the prohibition on the commercial farming of trout to be lifted.
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The decrease in the price of whole milk powder in Fonterra Cooperative Group’s internet auction this week was expected as the market begins to level out.
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To prevent any disruption to sharemilker income, Federated Farmers is advising all sharemilkers to discuss Fonterra Cooperative Group’s new payout with their farm owner or Fonterra shareholder.
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With NIWA confirming the average temperature of the past decade was fractionally higher than the 1980s, the previous hottest decade, Federated Farmers has challenged the Government to back water storage.
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Federated Farmers has welcomed Fonterra Cooperative Group’s announcement it is to invest $53 million into its joint venture, DMV-Fonterra Excipients, in order to acquire FrieslandCampina Domo-Pharma – a pharmaceutical grade lactose manufacturer.
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Federated Farmers is calling on NIWA’s Keith Lassey to retract the comments he made on TV3 News this evening, where he claimed livestock account for a quarter of all global greenhouse gas emissions.
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Online accounting software service Xero (XRO) has signed a Heads of Agreement with Federated Farmers to facilitate the roll out of its international award winning solution to members of Federated Farmers and the rural community.
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Federated Farmers has enthusiastically welcomed news that the Global Research Alliance on agricultural greenhouse gases is starting to get the financial means to take flight, with over $200 million pledged from New Zealand, the United States and Canada.
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Federated Farmers is urging farmers to conduct strict due diligence before entering into sale and purchase agreements.
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WELLINGTON — An informal survey of 117 Wellingtonians has revealed lamb may dominate the nation’s plates come Christmas Day.
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While yesterday’s fiscal update delivered some positive news for the economy, the relentless growth in Government spending removes some of the shine.
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WELLINGTON — The logic behind regional councils and farmers working together has been vindicated this season with a spectacular improvement in dairy farm compliance in Greater Wellington.
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The tragic death of a six-year-old girl after she fell off an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) at an off-road motocross park last weekend highlights the need to educate non-farmers about the risks of operating ATVs.
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CANTERBURY — The severe hailstorm that hit inland parts of Canterbury yesterday damaged a large area of the region’s wheat and vegetable crops, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage.
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Federated Farmers remains optimistic over achieving its target of $150 for a good mid-season lamb, despite this season’s lower than expected farm-gate returns.
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Federated Farmers latest interest rates survey released today shows little change in farm interest rates over the past three months.
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Federated Farmers has applauded the bold proposals to reform the New Zealand electricity market which are likely to make the market more consumer friendly.
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Federated Farmers is supporting the right of farmers in the MacKenzie Basin to submit a resource consent application.
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In a new initiative, Federated Farmers is right alongside adventurers Jamie Fitzgerald and Graeme Dingle’s bid to turnaround the country’s negative youth statistics.
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Federated Farmers welcomes Fonterra’s announcement of an annual retention but believes the amount retained by the cooperative is far too small.
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Federated Farmers has expressed its backing of the Tax Working Group’s goal of making 27 percent, the top rate for personal, company as well as trust tax.
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While the Australian Emissions Trading Scheme remains in flux, the formation of the Australian-led Wool Carbon Alliance is intriguing New Zealand’s fibre farmers.
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New Zealand’s largest fertiliser co-operatives gifted farmers an early Christmas present this week by significantly dropping phosphate prices.
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Federated Farmers President, Don Nicolson, will not be joining the throng of non governmental organisations attending the Copenhagen Summit in person.
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The latest GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) result is being welcomed by Federated Farmers as further evidence of solidity in international commodity markets.
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The Opposition controlled Australian Senate has voted down the Australian Emissions Trading scheme for a second time - 41 votes to 33.
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The Australian Emissions Trading Scheme has been thrown into chaos with Tony Abbott rolling Malcolm Turnbull as leader of the Australian Liberal Party.
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Federated Farmers has welcomed the 2025 Taskforce Report released today by Dr Don Brash.
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Speech by Philip York, Federated Farmers spokesperson on electricity, at the launch of the NZIER report on compensation for transmission infrastructure.
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At the launch of an economic study conducted by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER), Federated Farmers is to ask the owner of Transpower to make the national grid operator offer annual payments for new transmission line infrastructure on private land.
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Federated Farmers has welcomed the doubling of instant biosecurity fines from $200 to $400, as well as the bipartisanship shown in Parliament towards the Biosecurity Amendment Bill.
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The fragility of the global economic recovery has been underlined in the last 24 hours by reports, Dubai’s Government owned and controlled corporate lender, Dubai World, is to default on some $82 billion (US$60 billion) of debt.
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Federated Farmers has taken cold comfort that its behind the scenes lobbying may have saved each New Zealand farm some $27,000 from 2030.
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Federated Farmers has today welcomed the launch of goodfarmstories.org.nz by Green Party MP, Jeanette Fitzsimons. The informative website was launched at Parliament today and Federated Farmers chief executive, Conor English, was among the attendees.
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The release of the Pasture Renewal Charitable Trust commissioned BERL study, An economic analysis of the value of pasture, highlights not just the value of pasture to the New Zealand economy but the great potential, which exists to further increase productivity.
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Federated Farmers has welcomed reports the United Kingdom Government has shelved its ‘animal tax’, which would have forced exporters to cost-share for biosecurity incursions.
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AUCKLAND CITY — While Federated Farmers defends the right to protest legally, Greenpeace’s desperate smear campaign against Fonterra and dairy farming reflects an organisation that has lost sight of what its purpose is.
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In its submission to the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology, Federated Farmers has called for the biological economy to be prioritised, with bipartisan backing for three percent of Gross Domestic Product to be put into science and research.
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Educating young New Zealanders from low decile schools about farming is why Federated Farmers backs the efforts of Christine Fernyhough - philanthropist, farmer, inventor and author of Ben and Mark, Boys of the High Country.
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Opposition leader, the Hon Phil Goff MP, has told Federated Farmers National Council in Wellington today that the Reserve Bank Act and monetary policy targets and tools are struggling to rein in the Kiwi dollar and deliver appropriate interest rates.
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ASHBURTON — Federated Farmers is hailing Fonterra’s decisive capital structure result as a victory for the cooperative model.
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Federated Farmers has successfully negotiated a ‘sunset clause’ with Transpower that opens the way for future annual compensation payments when productive land is lost to transmission line projects.
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As predicted by Federated Farmers two weeks ago, Australia’s Federal Government yesterday opted to permanently exclude farmers from its emissions trading scheme (ETS).
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To help New Zealand make the most of opportunities in the Asian century, Federated Farmers has signed-on to the Business Education Partnership – designed to inform young New Zealanders about Asia.
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In the space of just 24 hours, New Zealand has got welcome confirmation the United States is to take part in the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Presentation by Donald Aubrey, Federated Farmers vice-president and telecommunications spokesperson, to the Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand (TUANZ) Rural Broadband Symposium in Rotorua.
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Federated Farmers is excited by the news that Fonterra is revising its 2009/10 season forecast to $6.05 per kilogram of milksolids (kg/MS).
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DUNEDIN — President of Federated Farmers Wairarapa, Anders Crofoot, has been elected President of the Dunedin based NZ Grassland Association at its AGM held at Waitangi.
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DUNEDIN — Speech notes of Don Nicolson, President of Federated Farmers, delivered at the University of Otago I wish to thank the University of Otago for affording me the opportunity of speaking to you in this session.
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Trade Minister, the Hon Tim Groser, told Federated Farmers Meat & Fibre producers yesterday that the world is their oyster in spite of mounting pressure from the high Kiwi dollar and climate change policy.
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Federated Farmers is challenging the Government to show more ambition on the rollout of broadband to one quarter of New Zealand. The Federation believes rural broadband is necessary for rural New Zealand’s economic competitiveness and social connectivity.
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Federated Farmers has welcomed the uplift in dairy commodities from the latest globalDairyTrade event, but warns the high New Zealand dollar means that farmers and the economy will not realise its full benefit.
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Following the recommendation of Coroner Tim Scott, Federated Farmers has issued a member advisory on all terrain vehicle quad bike safety.
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ROTORUA — Far from being cowed by Environment Bay of Plenty (EBOP), Rotorua’s dairy farmers have rounded on the Regional Council, slating its selective disclosure of the facts relating to a dairy farm compliance press release last week.
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The only farmer out of two New Zealanders on the International Dairy Federation’s (IDF) Standing Committee on Farm Management and Animal Health, Willy Leferink, is seeing moves to internationalise standards in the dairy industry.
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Federated Farmers has enthusiastically welcomed the report of the Regulatory Responsibility Taskforce on the Regulatory Responsibility Bill.
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Federated Farmers is welcoming the Government’s signing of a free trade agreement (FTA with Malaysia, although the runaway New Zealand dollar is removing some of the gloss.
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Ahead of Thursday’s official cash rate (OCR) decision, Federated Farmers is restating the need to cut the OCR by 50 basis points to prevent a ‘W’ shaped recession.
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Not to be outdone by their dairy counterparts, Federated Farmers Meat & Fibre has joined the push to get farmers out to vote for a ‘Google doodle’, pointing out that sheep pop up in each year group.
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Federated Farmers Dairy is throwing its full weight in behind Molly Ploeg’s ‘Doodle 4 Google’ entry titled, ‘Moogle Google’, by urging its members to go on-line and vote for it.
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The compatibility of New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) with Australia’s has been dealt a huge blow. The Australian Opposition Leader, Malcolm Turnbull, has received his coalition’s blessing to negotiate agriculture out of the Australian ETS.
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The New Zealand Nuffield Farming Scholars for 2010 were recently announced in front of their peers and industry leaders.
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After a mild recession, the domestic economy has apparently nudged back into a growth phase, with business and consumer confidence rising.
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Federated Farmers has unambiguously made its views known to the Select Committee on the Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions Trading) Amendment Bill.
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While levy increases were always on the cards, Federated Farmers was shocked to discover farmers’ ACC levy rates could jump by 70 percent.
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AUCKLAND — Following additional legal advice, Federated Farmers has opted not to appeal Transpower’s Whakamaru to Auckland transmission line project.
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AUCKLAND — Federated Farmers is awaiting legal advice that may see it lodge an appeal to the Board of Inquiry’s approval of Transpower’s Whakamaru to Auckland transmission line.
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Britain’s decision to declare open season on Canada geese provides just the impetus New Zealand needs to classify the bird a pest.
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HAWKE'S BAY — Federated Farmers is calling for a debriefing with police and Fonterra following today’s apprehension of the Norsewood gunman.
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Dairy remains a vibrant progressive industry, despite the receivership today of four Crafar controlled entities involving 20 dairy farms.
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HAWKE'S BAY — Federated Farmers is hearing reports from many farmers who have been badly affected by the snow storm hammering the central North Island.
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HAWKE'S BAY — Federated Farmers is asking media not to make contact with affected properties for the next several hours.
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Federated Farmers believes the draft strategy and code for walking access strikes a balance between normal farming activities and the public’s right to walking access.
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Federated Farmers welcomes the Government’s funding plan for rural broadband although some questions remain over the initiative.
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AUCKLAND — Rodney District Council deceived its constituents this week by brokering a behind closed doors deal with the Environmental Defence Society.
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Federated Farmers is applauding the Solid Energy/Ravensdown preliminary study to confirm if a coal to fertiliser plant in Southland is economically feasible.
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Federated Farmers is enthusiastically backing the Government’s announcement, made at the United Nations, for coordinated international research into agricultural emissions.
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Like every business, cash flow is critical to the agricultural sector, which is why Federated Farmers has teamed up with Westpac to host a series of free, nationwide seminars in October on cash flow management.
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A Colmar Brunton national survey of 1004 respondents has found only 29 percent of respondents back the inclusion of agriculture in the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
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News that Fonterra is revising its forecast payout for the 2009/10 season upward to $5.10 per kilogram of milksolids (kgMS), is welcome relief for the entire dairy industry.
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Managing director of Ashburton-based Netherby Meats, Mike Hanson, was yesterday elected chairperson of Federated Farmers Rural Butchers.
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AUCKLAND — Federated Farmers is disappointed with the decision today that the Board of Inquiry into Transpower’s Whakamaru to Auckland transmission line has approved the project.
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The announcement by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) of a recent discovery of P.alvei in a New Zealand bee reinforces the importance of not resuming honey imports from Australia.
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Federated Farmers is heralding the first two stages of Fonterra’s capital structure review proposal, believing it provides a strong basis from which to grow the Cooperative while retaining full ownership and control by New Zealand’s farmers.
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Allowing transport companies to use electronic distance recording devices is a bold step toward a more efficient road pricing system.
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