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With Southland drenched and the West Coast battered by a second week of storms, Federated Farmers believes much of New Zealand's farmland has benefited from summer rain excepting Hawke's Bay and parts of Gisborne.

Federated Farmers has welcomed the 89.51% vote in favour of constitutional safeguards around Trading Among Farmers (TAF).

The peak agricultural bodies of New Zealand and Australia have united in calling for a truly comprehensive and generally liberalising Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement from day one of implementation.

The uptake of on-farm recycling has received a major boost with Federated Farmers and the Agrecovery Foundation, actively joining forces to increase farmer involvement in the Agrecovery recycling programme.

Farmers are counting down the days to when major shareholdings in New Zealand Wool Services International (NZWSI) will be on-sold by the receivers.

While there is no news yet on whether Transpower would appeal Waimate District Council's decision to ignore the former's pylon buffer zone proposals, it seems likely Federated Farmers will appeal the plan to the Environment Court, albeit on different grounds.

If the sale of TelstraClear to Vodafone increases both broadband penetration and mobile network coverage, then Federated Farmers will welcome it.

A calf, mortally wounded in a botched poaching incident, has Federated Farmers concerned someone will end up being killed.

While the 2012/13 season will be tough for farmers, Federated Farmers believes it is not as dire as some commentators say.

Federated Farmers believes quantitative easing now would be incredibly bad for New Zealand.