Wellington Agriculture

Wellington City — The Primary Industry Capability Alliance (PICA) was officially launched in Wellington last night.

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Wellington — Federated Farmers Wairarapa invites families in the Wellington region to experience a working sheep and beef farm that is a regional park.

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Wellington — Speech by Bruce Wills, President of Federated Farmers, at the opening of Federated Farmers 2011 National Council in Wellington Good morning and welcome to Wellington for Federated Farmers 2011 National Council.

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Wellington — The second consecutive fall in the Food Price Index, this time by one percent, shows that the market is working to deliver fair pricing.

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Wellington — Speech by Dr William Rolleston, Federated Farmers Vice-President, to the New Zealand Institute of Agricultural & Horticultural Science in Wellington on 4 October 2011.

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Wellington — The Maori Party has had mixed views about this bill, and the initiative to establish a national identification and tracing system.

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Wellington — While Federated Farmers position on the mandatory National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) scheme is well known, the Federation must support members by ensuring they get the briefings, instruction and detail on how to be NAIT compliant by 1 July, 2012.

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Wellington — In the space of three seasons, dairy farmers in the Greater Wellington region have massively lifted their performance in terms of dairy compliance.

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Wellington — The use of insects and diseases to control certain weeds in New Zealand has been around since the 1930’s, but their potential as a realistic option for controlling weeds is only now being realised.

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Wellington City — Two Scholars will benefit from the 2011 Nuffield Farming Scholarship Trust, announced at a function held in Wellington on Tuesday night.  This function was attended by representatives of the organisations that fund the New Zealand Nuffield Scholars and other industry leaders.

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Wellington — The logic behind regional councils and farmers working together has been vindicated this season with a spectacular improvement in dairy farm compliance in Greater Wellington.

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Wellington City — A couple of prize Holstein Friesian cows are coming to Wellington’s Civic Square to take centre stage in the Great Meridian Milk Off – a contest between some champion dairy farmers and a bunch of celebrities.

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Wellington — There are only a handful of tickets remaining for the 2009 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards gala dinner, where the winners of the New Zealand Sharemilker of the Year, Farm Manager of the Year and Dairy Trainee of the Year will be announced.

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Wellington — The buzz was louder than usual at The Beehive yesterday, as Federated Farmers joined the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Hon David Carter MP and National Beekeepers Association chief executive, Jim Edwards, around a real beehive.

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Wellington — Rural Wairarapa people are saying loud and clear they do not want to go back to the bad old days when possums were chewing away at farms, forests and gardens says Greater Wellington’s Wairarapa Councillor Ian Buchanan.

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Wellington — The destocking of St James Station, the lease of which was purchased by the Crown last year for $40 million, continues apace today at the Canterbury Park sales, where 1,000 ewes and their lambs are being sold.

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Wellington — Federated Farmers Meat & Fibre Chairman, Bruce Wills has expressed disappointment at yesterday’s announcement that Silver Fern Farms Limited has terminated the agreement relating to the partnership proposal with PGG Wrightson.

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Wellington — A proposal to take groundwater for dairy pasture irrigation from bores near Taumata Lagoon has been declined by a Greater Wellington Hearing Committee.

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Wellington — “Federated Farmers president, Charlie Pedersen, needs to accept that the days of environmental plunder are over,” Green Party Environment Spokesperson Nandor Tanczos says.

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Wellington — Address to Federated Farmers National Council Conference.

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Wellington — We meet twice a year as representatives of New Zealand farmers to make decisions about issues which are crucial to our industry and the wider New Zealand economy.

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