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New drive for strong wool profitability gaining impetus, Feds says
New Zealand’s wool industry is entering an exciting new era of collaboration, innovation and consumer-focus to deliver game changing profitability to farmers, William Beetham says. “We’re really pleased to see industry players work together to end fragmentation and concentrate on driving extra value from the superior attributes we all know that strong wool entails,” the Federated Farmers Meat and Wool Chairperson said. “I believe it’s all adding up to a new dawn for New Zealand strong wool.” William pointed to recent initiatives, including: A proposed merger of two main farmer owned co-operatives (Wools of NZ – 730 farmers; Primary…
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Politics
Financers starting to ask tough sustainability questions
The government and consumers of food and fibre products aren’t the only ones asking farmers about environmental and social sustainability. Increasingly, bankers and financers want to know too. Dean Spicer, ANZ’s Head of…
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Are we barking at deaf sheep?
By Leigh Catley, GM Communications, Federated Farmers Groundswell’s tractor and tradie national protest on July 16 left many Federated Farmers members asking … what happens next? Did anyone actually hear the farmers’ messages,…
National
Blockchain links us to value capture, less tedious data entry
Of all the presentations at the Primary Industries NZ Summit in Christchurch earlier this month it was a session on blockchain technology that lit up the eyes of Andrew Hoggard more than any…
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Cobber Challenge: It’s Aussie kelpies vs Kiwi heading dogs
Australia’s Cobber Challenge is for the first time expanding to include New Zealand farmers and their dogs. The annual challenge has been going since 2016 and involves working farm dogs being fitted with…
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Local
Gisborne maintenance cutbacks will ramp up fire risk
By Debbie Bidlake, Federated Farmers senior policy advisor The east coast has a lot of forestry and scrub. Both are highly flammable. Fire Emergency New Zealand (FENZ) doesn’t talk about if there will…
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Greg Anderson ready to put time into advocacy
Greg Anderson (South Canterbury) is one of six new provincial presidents elected during the recent annual general meeting season around Federated Farmers’ 24 provinces. We catch up with him on his background and…
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