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Silver Fern Farms (SFF) is urging its non-shared farmer suppliers to become shareholders.

There have been negativities around farmers saying the sheep sector is declining.

The pendulum may be swinging too far on regulation, so stifling innovation, Beef + Lamb NZ chairman James Parson suggests.

Farmers are doing their bit to help the Government get 90% of lakes and rivers swimmable by 2040.

“There is absolutely no question that Brexit is something we are focused on,” says Beef + Lamb NZ chairman James Parsons.

Farmers are disappointed by the Waikato Regional Council’s (WRC) ‘delaying tactics’ around a judicial review by six organisations over plans for the Healthy River Plan Change.

Sheep and beef farmers are facing testing times and many of the challenges are outside their control.

Insufficient contract maize was grown this season, contributing to a feed shortage in drought conditions, says Federated Farmers Northland provincial president John Blackwell.

Environmental management, its use and regulation is high on the radar of sheep and beef farmers, according Beef+Lamb NZ’s Sam McIvor.

Massey University ecologist Mike Joy, and dairy industry critic, has accused the sector of bullying behaviour.