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NZ needs to hang tough on EU trade deal
By Andrew Hoggard, President Federated Farmers of NZ Now is not the time for New Zealand to water down ambitions for a significant, comprehensive and mutually beneficial trade deal with the European Union. If anything, with all the extra uncertainty, cost and supply chain disruption from COVID, Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine and tense geopolitical and security situations, the illogicality and short-term thinking of artificial trade barriers should be even more apparent to all nations. With particular regard to agriculture, if the EU is to pay more than lip-service to commitments made under the Paris Agreement on global food…
Politics
Economic Week – June 24
Farm sales down but prices holding There were 403 farm sales in the three months ended May 2022, according to the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand’s Rural Market Statistics. This was down…
European Green Deal could see food become a luxury
By Mark Ross, Chief Executive of Animal and Plant Health NZ Is food set to be a luxury of the wealthy? This is the question that resounds from reviewing the agricultural policies that…
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National
Kiwi farmers filling food banks
Kiwi farmers want no one in New Zealand to go hungry. They’re banding together to change the way we respond to food poverty. A new nationwide partnership has been launched between Feed Out…
Forestry bill fails to achieve fairness
New rules fall short of delivering a level playing field when overseas investors buy our farmland for forestry, Federated Farmers says. It’s a “step in the right direction” to scrap the much-criticised special…
Local
David Acland – ‘shaking it up a bit’ in Mid-Canterbury
by Rebecca Flannery We catch up with David Acland, the new president of Federated Farmers Mid-Canterbury… What is your farming background? I’ve taken over the family farm that my father purchased in 1983…
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Dr Branko Sijnja named as 2022 recipient of Peter Snow Memorial Award
Media release – New Zealand Rural General Practice Network Influential GP Dr Branko Sijnja has been named as the recipient of the Peter Snow Memorial Award for 2022. Branko was nominated for his…
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