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Fellow Feds board member Andrew Hoggard and I have just returned from a five-day study tour in Australia hosted by Mercury Energy.

Mid-Canterbury enjoys a direct relationship between water use and employment, says Federated Farmers.

Regions such as Mid-Canterbury enjoy a direct relationship between water use and employment, says Federated Farmers.

Federated Farmers water spokesman Chris Allen says with the absence of detail on Labour’s new water tax policy, voters will be sailing blind into the election.

A partnership approach to dealing with river and lake water quality offers the best prospect of making sustained progress on problems often decades in the making, says the Feds.

Farmers are unhappy with Greenpeace’s latest attempt to protest against intensive dairying.

Federated Farmers is pleased to see the Government getting on with the job of reforming resource management legislation.

Federated Farmers fully backs the target to completely eradicate introduced predators from New Zealand by 2050 announced by the government.

Federated Farmers supports a ruling this week in the Court of Appeal after a four year legal battle between the Queen Elizabeth II (QEII) National Trust and a property developer.

Federated Farmers is on board with challenges laid down by Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.