Displaying items by tag: Federated Farmers

Northland Federated Farmers is calling on farmers to take action over Northland's District Council's proposed freshwater plan.

Dairy farming leader Richard McIntyre claims LIC has fallen short of its moral obligation to farmers, who recently received bad sire semen from the herd improvement company.

Farmers have given the incoming Government the tick of approval.

Federated Farmers policy team staff reductions haven't just been about saving money or reducing headcount, chief executive Terry Copeland claims.

All farmers will be worse off if planned reductions in Federated Farmers' policy team proceed.

Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford says Greenpeace has shown itself as an anti-farming lobby by criticising Fonterra’s new on-farm emissions targets.

When the new National-led government is finally formed there will be a long list waiting for it to action from the primary industries sector.

OPINION: Farmers are doing it tough right now with rising costs, bad weather and falling payouts.

As rain pours down on David Birkett's Leeston arable farm, he takes a sigh of relief ahead of the predicted dry summer.

Farmers want the Commerce Commission to investigate banks that are beginning to set targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on farms.