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Farmers have expressed alarm at some banks setting targets to reduce emissions at a time when the sector is under growing financial strain.

Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor says the Government didn’t hold an inquiry into rural banking because the sector didn’t ask for one.

OPINION: This old mutt understands that Federated Farmers has recently ceased the production of its monthly publication Fed News, as the economic realities of producing the paper have hit home.

Leading figures from major political parties will be grilled on their primary sector policies at the inaugural Rural Issues Debate at Mystery Creek Events Centre on 14 September.

South Canterbury farmers are worried about continuing to farm their land, with a local council bringing in rules around the Sites and Areas of Significance to Māori (SASM).

Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford has joined the chorus of opposition to the Government's proposed emissions reduction plan.

The arable sector will feel the impacts of cuts to forecast milk payments to New Zealand’s dairy farmers, says Federated Farmers arable vice-president grains, Andrew Darling.

Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford says the Government’s recently released emissions pricing plan is ‘tone-deaf’.

Six months on from Cyclone Gabrielle, a farming leader says the so called ‘recovery’ is almost non-existent.

A recent survey by Federated Farmers of 1000 dairy, sheep, beef and arable farmers has found that confidence is at historic lows.