Southland Agriculture

Southland — Federated Farmers are slamming a recent court decision that would require more than 3000 Southland farmers to apply for a resource consent just to continue farming.

By Federated Farmers of New Zealand
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Southland — Federated Farmers is welcoming the announcement of extra Government support for farmers and growers in Southland and parts of Otago.

By Federated Farmers of New Zealand
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Southland — The New Zealand government has announced up to $50,000 in additional support for farmers and growers in Southland and parts of Otago due to challenging spring weather conditions, classified as a medium-scale adverse event.

By Expert Briefing
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Southland — Waituna dairy farm manager Kevin Belling and his wife Rhonda Raymond-Williams have each been convicted and fined in the Invercargill District Court for four breaches of the Resource Management Act last September and October.

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Southland — Environment Southland is calling on the Government to amend the Land Transport Act to make it a specific offence for stock trucks to leak effluent onto roads.

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Southland — Following Federated Farmers Southland Annual General Meeting yesterday, 23 May, the Province elected a new provincial president to replace Rod Pemberton, who is now farming in Central Otago.

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Southland — Recent poor compliance by dairy farmers in the region has dismayed Environment Southland Councillors and compliance staff.

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Winton — AgriKidsNZ has run alongside The National Bank Young Farmer Contest for the past six years and the Competition has always been very popular in the Otago/Southland Region: you just have to remember back to the turn out for last year's Grand Final to know that.

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Southland — Last year Southland experienced the full excitement of The National Bank Young Farmer Contest when the Grand Final was held in Gore; it was made all the more exciting when young Peter Gardyne placed second - just behind eventual winner Grant McNaughton.

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Southland — Federated Farmers welcomes one of the first practical measures to emerge from last September’s devastating storms in Southland and South Otago, FMG’s introduction of a ‘Livestock Catastrophe Policy’ for sheep farmers.

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Invercargill — Woman dairy farmers wanting to get inside the heads of their male staff will get some valuable insights from leading author and social commentator Celia Lashlie at this year’s Dairy Women’s Network conference.

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Southland — Dairy farmers in the Waituna catchment who have set up streamside paddocks for winter grazing will get one-on-one help from Environment Southland to prevent sediment and nutrients reaching the Waituna Lagoon.

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Southland — Federated Farmers has not only rejected the serious, but anonymous animal welfare allegations being levelled against it, but is raising serious concerns about the conduct of an internal investigation into the behaviour of Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry (MAF) personnel, from earlier in the year.

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Southland — New Zealand farming has a well-deserved history of innovation and ingenuity, and farmers looking to the future tend to be early adopters of new technology and scientific advancements.

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Southland — Federated Farmers, along with the Rural Support Trusts, Alliance Group, FMG, PGG Wrightson and CRT delivered about 800 food baskets today to Southlanders affected by the spring snow.

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Southland — Representatives from Federated Farmers, the Rural Support Trusts, Alliance Group, FMG, PGG Wrightson and CRT are heading out to the hardest hit areas in order to see farmers individually.

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Southland — As the scale of the event becomes evident, Federated Farmers, together with the Rural Support Trust Southland, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) and supportive agribusinesses, are in detailed planning over the weekend.

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Southland — New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards Chair Matthew Richards met Agriculture Minister Hon David Carter yesterday to show him the chilling affects from the storm that has battered the region for the past week.

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Southland — Alliance Group Ltd has initiated the establishment of a relief fund for farmers affected by the severe weather events which have occurred over the past week, especially in the south.

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Southland — The narrow but intense weather system that has brought record snow to Southland and heavy rainfall in the Manawatu, has many farmers hoping for a break in the weather.

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Southland — Environment Southland has been working with silage contractors and a working group of farmers to update the existing permitted activity rule for managing the environmental effects of storing silage.

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