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New report calls for urgent action on water storage
For New Zealand to transition towards land uses that have a greater economic value and smaller environmental footprint, as well as improved community resilience, we need to “act strategically – and to act now”. That’s according to Water Security and Availability in Aotearoa New Zealand, a report released by the Ministry for Primary Industries last month. The report says that while New Zealand is traditionally viewed as a green and water rich country, climate change trends show a country getting warmer and drier (with some regional variations), and more prone to climate extremes (floods and droughts). “The frequency of…
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Politics
Beef + Lamb New Zealand and Silver Fern Farms Collaboration Increases Sales in U.S. Market
Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) and Silver Fern Farms are celebrating another year of successful joint marketing efforts in the United States. The partnership, which included a series of seasonal marketing campaigns,…
Honey production and yields fall while export volumes remain buoyant for the 2020/21 year
New Zealand’s national honey production in the 2020/2021 season was down 24% on the previous season and the average honey yield per hive fell 18%, according to the 2021 Apiculture Monitoring Report released…
National
Lucerne and legumes key to resilience programme
A range of tools to support hill country farmers to become more productive and resilient will become available through the Hill Country Futures programme over the coming year. These will include a simple…
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Economic Week – December 3
by Nick Clark, Federated Farmers Manager General Policy Terms-of-trade sets new record The goods terms-of-trade rose 0.7% to a new record high in the September 2021 quarter, according to Statistics NZ’s Overseas Trade…
Local
Current policy directions don’t work for Northland or NZ
A Q&A with one of the new crop of Federated Farmers Provincial Presidents – Colin Hannah, Northland What is your background? I was raised on a dairy farm, and as a teenager ran…
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Water entity concerns run too deep to just press ahead
Federated Farmers joins the many council elected representatives and citizens up and down the country urging the government to go back to the drawing board on reform of three waters delivery. “While it’s…
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