Eight winners of the Ahuwhenua Young Māori Farmer Award are seeking mentors to support them in reaching their personal, business and career goals. The 6-month mentoring programme will start at the beginning on 2021. The Ahuwhenua Young Māori Farmer Award was inaugurated in 2012, recognising the success of young Māori making their careers in the agricultural sector. […]
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Wairarapa MP sneaks in Golden Shears invite
Question time in Parliament yesterday, when in amongst warm fuzzies about the government working with Feds and the Shearing Contractors Association to bring more shearers into the country, is a smart move by Wairarapa MP Kieran McAnulty to get Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi to confirm he will go to the Golden Shears next year. Watch […]
Bernadette Hunt wins PINZ Leadership award
Two major pieces of legislation have kicked Southland this year…. fresh water & winter grazing legislation. Both rules created havoc in Southland….in the middle of it all was Southland farmer and Federated Farmers vice president Bernadette Hunt. A tough year all around, yet at the Primary Industries awards event Bernadette Hunt vice president of Southland […]
2021 Nuffield Scholarships Announced
Meet the latest cohort of emerging leaders in New Zealand’s primary sector who were awarded a 2021 Nuffield NZ Farming Scholarship on Tuesday, 3rd November at Parliament. The recipients of a 2021 Nuffield Scholarship are: Lynsey Stratford – equity partner in a 420 cow dairy farm in Curio Bay, Consultant for People MAD Ltd & […]
PINZ is almost here … listen to FEDTalks
The Primary Industries NZ Summit starts on Monday in Wellington Building on the strength of our inaugural summit in 2019 ‘PINZ’ brings producers from across the broad range of NZ’s primary industries together, along with policymakers, scientists, suppliers and other key stakeholders to hear local and global experts. It’s about developing solutions to the challenges […]
Nurse Practitioner wins Peter Snow Memorial Award
South Canterbury Mātanga Tapuhi (Nurse Practitioner) Tania Kemp (Ngā Māhanga A Tairi, affiliation with Ngāti Mutunga O Wharekauri) has been announced as the 2020 recipient of the Peter Snow Memorial Award. The award was announced at the New Zealand Rural General Practice Network AGM on Saturday. The Peter Snow Memorial Award honours the life and […]
Backing whio for #BOTY2020
Voting is open for the 2020 Bird of the Year, and Federated Farmers is flapping its wings and quacking on to support the whio (blue duck) to take the title. Feds backed the whio last year, and it placed 6th. “The doughty whio embodies many things about the resilience of rural communities,” Federated Farmers environment […]
Carbon footprint cut, one step at a time
Wairarapa sheep farmer Rob Dick (a Federated Farmers member) is on a mission to reduce his property’s environmental footprint as quickly as possible. The actions he’s taking to manage his carbon footprint earned him Greater Wellington’s Synlait Climate Stewardship Award in the 2020 Ballance Farm Environment Awards, run by the NZ Farm Environment Trust. Rob’s understanding of how […]