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With the official cash rate due out on Thursday, farmer confidence at the beginning of the 2012-13 season has plummeted in Federated Farmers latest farm confidence survey.

New Zealanders will be able to size up the president of Federated Farmers for themselves this Saturday, with Country Calendar featuring the farm and work of Bruce Wills. The episode airs on TV One Saturday at 7pm.

DAIRY FARMERS have to accept they are the target of a rapidly increasing number of evangelistic environmentalists.

If the $840 million sale of TelstraClear to Vodafone gets regulatory approval, it could strengthen the financial case for an enhanced rural broadband offer by Vodafone.

A "global dairy crisis" could be good for New Zealand dairy farmers, says Federated Farmers.

The New Zealand Emissions Trading scheme (ETS) has taken a big step towards forward, yet remains the harshest treatment of any agricultural production system on Earth.

Federated Farmers West Coast provincial president, Katie Milne, has been elected to the farmer lobby's board.

Progressive Meats Managing Director, Craig Hickson is the 2012 Allflex/Federated Farmers Agribusiness Person of the Year.

Federated Farmers has re-elected the heads of its dairy and meat and fibre groups for another term.

With 66% of Fonterra shareholder-suppliers backing Trading Among Farmers (TAF), Federated Farmers is calling on the cooperative to unite. This call comes off an 85% turnout among shareholders.