Federated Farmers of New Zealand

AUCKLAND — Following additional legal advice, Federated Farmers has opted not to appeal Transpower’s Whakamaru to Auckland transmission line project.

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AUCKLAND — Federated Farmers is awaiting legal advice that may see it lodge an appeal to the Board of Inquiry’s approval of Transpower’s Whakamaru to Auckland transmission line.

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Britain’s decision to declare open season on Canada geese provides just the impetus New Zealand needs to classify the bird a pest.

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HAWKE'S BAY — Federated Farmers is calling for a debriefing with police and Fonterra following today’s apprehension of the Norsewood gunman.

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Dairy remains a vibrant progressive industry, despite the receivership today of four Crafar controlled entities involving 20 dairy farms.

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HAWKE'S BAY — Federated Farmers is hearing reports from many farmers who have been badly affected by the snow storm hammering the central North Island.

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HAWKE'S BAY — Federated Farmers is asking media not to make contact with affected properties for the next several hours.

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Federated Farmers believes the draft strategy and code for walking access strikes a balance between normal farming activities and the public’s right to walking access.

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Federated Farmers welcomes the Government’s funding plan for rural broadband although some questions remain over the initiative.

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AUCKLAND — Rodney District Council deceived its constituents this week by brokering a behind closed doors deal with the Environmental Defence Society.

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Federated Farmers is applauding the Solid Energy/Ravensdown preliminary study to confirm if a coal to fertiliser plant in Southland is economically feasible.

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Federated Farmers is enthusiastically backing the Government’s announcement, made at the United Nations, for coordinated international research into agricultural emissions.

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Like every business, cash flow is critical to the agricultural sector, which is why Federated Farmers has teamed up with Westpac to host a series of free, nationwide seminars in October on cash flow management.

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A Colmar Brunton national survey of 1004 respondents has found only 29 percent of respondents back the inclusion of agriculture in the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

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New Zealand is big.

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News that Fonterra is revising its forecast payout for the 2009/10 season upward to $5.10 per kilogram of milksolids (kgMS), is welcome relief for the entire dairy industry.

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Managing director of Ashburton-based Netherby Meats, Mike Hanson, was yesterday elected chairperson of Federated Farmers Rural Butchers.

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AUCKLAND — Federated Farmers is disappointed with the decision today that the Board of Inquiry into Transpower’s Whakamaru to Auckland transmission line has approved the project.

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The announcement by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) of a recent discovery of P.alvei in a New Zealand bee reinforces the importance of not resuming honey imports from Australia.

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Federated Farmers is heralding the first two stages of Fonterra’s capital structure review proposal, believing it provides a strong basis from which to grow the Cooperative while retaining full ownership and control by New Zealand’s farmers.

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Allowing transport companies to use electronic distance recording devices is a bold step toward a more efficient road pricing system.

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TAURANGA — The Greenpeace activists, who have illegally boarded the cargo vessel East Ambition, should be prosecuted as pirates, or more precisely, sea robbers, given the ship was illegally boarded within New Zealand territorial waters.

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Federated Farmers welcomes Agriculture Minister, the Hon David Carter’s amendments to the pricing formula for regulated milk.

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AUCKLAND — Federated Farmers is taking its fight to keep the whole of Franklin district in the new Auckland super city to Parliament.

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Just last week, the Wall Street Journal described New Zealand’s climate variation response as ‘lunacy’.

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A Wall Street Journal opinion piece has delivered a stinging rebuke of New Zealand’s climate variation response, describing as ‘lunacy’, the Government’s wish to drive down living standards in order to protect the country’s perceived image abroad.

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Federated Farmers intensive work with the Government has seen it announce new targets for rural broadband at a cost of $300 million.

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Biosecurity New Zealand’s compromise to its border security operations review is a very small step in the right direction.

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Unless the Reserve Bank cuts the Official Cash Rate (OCR) by 50 basis points tomorrow, Federated Farmers believes New Zealand risks a ‘W’ shaped recession.

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Federated Farmers latest local government rates survey has revealed two farms paying over $100,000 in rates this year and a further six paying over $50,000.

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AUCKLAND — With the radical shakeup of Auckland being proposed by the Auckland Governance Legislation Committee, Federated Farmers is looking to Parliament to set much of the super city’s boundary on that proposed in the Report of the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance.

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Federated Farmers has welcomed Fonterra’s decision to scrap plans to list New Zealand’s most important company as being a major step forward for the Cooperative.

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Federated Farmers strongly opposes lumping biosecurity costs onto farmers as laid out in the Joint Decision Making and Cost Sharing Master Deed released by Government today.

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Federated Farmers applauds Associate Minister of Conservation, the Hon Kate Wilkinson’s decision to block Fish and Game New Zealand from increasing its license fee.

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Federated Farmers has told the Parliamentary Banking Inquiry today that there is still room for interest rate cuts.

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After this week’s ‘no’ vote in the Meat & Wool New Zealand wool levy referendum, Federated Farmers vice president Donald Aubrey is suggesting a fine wool growers organisation be developed.

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Federated Farmers is delighted by today’s 24.2 percent increase in average whole milk powder prices (WMP) from the latest GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) event.

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While farmers voted ‘no’ to any wool or goatmeat levy, the result of the sheepmeat and beef levy vote was hardly convincing either.

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Federated Farmers is concerned at the reckless and irresponsible disclosure in Parliament of a preliminary draft report by Sue Kedgley MP.

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Federated Farmers is welcoming the new direction set out yesterday by the National Government for the South Island high country.

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While the $9 million ‘smacking referendum’ engendered a lot of coverage, Meat & Wool’s levy referendum, of far greater economic importance to New Zealand, has a current turnout of only 33 percent and closes this Friday.

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Horizons Regional Council is being applauded by Federated Farmers for admitting human waste is having a major impact on water quality.

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Federated Farmers is giving the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Bill a notice of non compliance after it failed to acknowledge property rights and full compensation principles.

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Federated Farmers is welcoming the closer integration on trans-Tasman flights of MAF Biosecurity New Zealand (Biosecurity NZ) with the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS), but raises important questions about the proposal.

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GORE — Poorly maintained urban septic tanks are giving agriculture the bum’s rush by posing an environmental, health and agricultural risk.

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AUCKLAND — In a major case of biological misidentification, farmers are demanding an apology from Auckland Regional Council (ARC) Chairman, Mike Lee, after he fingered farmers last week as a possible cause of Auckland’s toxic algae bloom.   The toxin, Tetrodotoxin, was instead identified last Friday and is found only in marine animals.

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Federated Farmers believes an appeal of the Minaret Station Otago Land Valuation Tribunal decision would be an irresponsible use of taxpayers money.

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Federated Farmers is challenging the Government and Dr.

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With many farmers averaging $21,000 per year for their electricity, the prospect of substantial reform to the New Zealand electricity market has Federated Farmers amping up its submission.

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Within the past few days, Federated Farmers has delivered both a brickbat and a bouquet to the big two mobile telecommunication companies, with the Federation cautiously welcoming Vodafone’s partnership with rural satellite broadband provider, Farmside.

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Federated Farmers has joined the Minister of Agriculture, the Hon David Carter MP, in urging a big turnout for the Meat & Wool levy referendum, which closes on August 28.

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Federated Farmers is celebrating the National-led Government’s decision to abandon a new tax on diesel.

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The Government’s plan to meet its 2020 target by increasing forestry sinks and the purchase of emission reduction units may help meet existing international commitments, but the Federation remains concerned about the impact on farming and the wider economy “I’ve digested the announcement only after taking my ‘unreality pill.’ All I see is a tax and a target and no substantial research investment,” says Don Nicolson, President of Federated Farmers.

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Federated Farmers has welcomed the 25.8 percent uplift in whole milk powder prices (WMP) from the latest GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) event, but remains concerned at fluctuations in WMP prices.

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Federated Farmers believes it maybe time to use a new US$243 million (NZ$367 million) American dairy subsidy, to end an even worse one, that being the Dairy Export Incentive Programme (DEIP) introduced in May.

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OTAGO — Federated Farmers is congratulating the owners of Minaret Station and High Country Accord on the precedent setting Minaret decision, made last Friday by the Otago Land Valuation Tribunal (LVT).

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Federated Farmers believes Fonterras confirmed 2008/2009 payout of $5.20 per kilogram of milksolids (kg/MS) vindicates its cooperative structure.

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Federated Farmers is calling for 50 basis points to be cut from the Official Cash Rate (OCR) on Thursday to put downwards pressure on the high New Zealand dollar.

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Federated Farmers is describing the race to set a 2020 emissions reduction target as a political gesture.

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CANTERBURY — Federated Farmers argues opposition to the Hurunui Water Project is emblematic of why New Zealand is slipping backwards as a developed nation.

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Within 24 hours the rural sector has seen Fonterra Chairman, Henry van der Heyden, resign from the board of NZX and former Fonterra Chief Executive, Craig Norgate, resign yesterday as Chairman of PGG Wrightson.

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While Federated Farmers believes Meat & Wool New Zealand has refined its proposal to renew its compulsory levy, some sticking points remain.

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Federated Farmers believes the hypocrisy of environmental lobbyists has been revealed by their silence on urban pollution.

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Federated Farmers has commenced a series of meetings with the major trading banks to get to the bottom of the interest rates being paid by farm businesses.

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Thank you for inviting me to speak to the ACT Central North Island Conference.

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Federated Farmers has secured much needed tax relief and income assistance for some of the remotest farmers on the planet - farmers of the Chatham Islands.

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A new study designed to better understand links between farming practices and nutrient losses to the environment is being carried out jointly by Environment Waikato, Fonterra, DairyNZ and fertiliser company Ballance Agri-nutrients.

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Fonterra’s extension of a $15 million facility to RD1, a rural services retailer part owned by Fonterra, will continue an interest free service RD1 has been offering its customers.

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Federated Farmers is concerned that the 60 positions being cut from Biosecurity NZ could do more harm than good.

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Federated Farmers intends to meet with the major trading banks to discover why there is a disparity between farm mortgage interest rates and residential home loans.

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Federated Farmers is praising AgResearch for partnering with the United States Department of Energy's joint genome institute (JGI), to sequence the DNA of microbes found in the rumen or forestomach of farm animals.

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Keynote speech by Don Nicolson, Federated Farmers President, at the Federation’s National Conference Everyone in New Zealand, ladies and gentlemen, is a farmer.

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AUCKLAND CITY — Martin Luther King famously said, “I have a dream.

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AUCKLAND CITY — Proudly sponsored by gen-I, Synlait’s Dr.

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Hon Rodney Hide - Minister of Local Government; Minister for Regulatory Reform; Associate Minister of Commerce.

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AUCKLAND CITY — Tonight in Auckland, Federated Farmers will be announcing New Zealand’s first Agribusiness Person of the Year.

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AUCKLAND CITY — Conference opening by Don Nicolson, President of Federated Farmers.

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Federated Farmers welcomes the announcement by the Minister of Transport, the Hon Steven Joyce, of a permit scheme allowing trucks to carry heavier loads on some routes.

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AUCKLAND CITY — Topping the bill for the Federated Farmers 2009 National Conference, being held in Auckland from 30 June until 2 July, will be the Prime Minister, two current Ministers, a former Minister, two Chief Executives, a passionate academic, New Zealand’s foremost agri-economist, an inspirational wool exporter and several motivational speakers.

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Federated Farmers is praising the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) for its leadership in respect to its Meat: The Future study published this week.

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With the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area Bill receiving bipartisan support in Parliament, Federated Farmers is increasingly concerned that lamb and mutton is being left behind and could miss out on the benefits of the ASEAN Free Trade agreement (FTA).

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Federated Farmers is excited to announce the finalists for its first ever awarding of the Agribusiness Person of the Year.

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Farmers are again ranked in the top half of New Zealand’s most trusted occupations, according to the Readers Digest New Zealand's Most Trusted Professions for 2009.

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ROTORUA — I believe the outlook for grass-based dairy farming has never looked better.

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AUCKLAND — Between 30 June and 2 July, several hundred farming leaders will descend upon New Zealand’s largest and most metropolitan city for the 110th annual meeting of Federated Farmers, including its antecedent bodies.

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With changes to income and expense streams, cash flow is critical to the agricultural sector, which is carrying some $45 billion dollars in debt.

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Federated Farmers is warning farmers not to purchase ear tags in anticipation of the proposed National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) scheme.

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The recent increase in mohair fibre prices is a potential indication that the luxury end of the international consumer market may be rebounding.

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AUCKLAND CITY — Federated Farmers is set to recognise the very best New Zealand agriculture has to offer by holding the first Cream of the Crop awards evening, as part of its 2009 One Event national conference.

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Federated Farmers has welcomed the paper released today by Massey University’s Centre for Public Health Research, as an important contribution to occupational safety and health.

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Federated Farmers is questioning the cost and value of the latest Citizens Initiated Referendum that is forecast to cost taxpayers almost $9 million.

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Hundreds of vital migrant dairy workers will now be able to continue working in New Zealand thanks to lobbying by Federated Farmers.

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The growing number of resource consent applications not processed on time is symptomatic of councils do as I say and not as I do attitude.

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Today’s decision to stay further cuts to the Official Cash Rate (OCR) places the emphasis firmly on the banks to pass on the full extent of previous cuts.

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Farm leaders from around the world have joined with Federated Farmers to condemn protectionism and international trade barriers.

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Farmers’ overdraft interest rates may have fallen by the same amount as wholesale interest rates, but they still don’t reflect cuts to the Official Cash Rate (OCR).

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Farmers are being invited by Federated Farmers to ‘talk back’ to the U.S.

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The prestigious Wall Street Journal is today carrying an opinion piece on U.S.

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New Zealand’s sheep and beef farmers are battling on-farm inflation well over twice the general rate of inflation.

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Consultation by NZX to create a New Zealand futures market is being welcomed by Federated Farmers.

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