For the last five years the annual Federated Farmers Rural Connectivity Survey has highlighted the plight of rural families and businesses struggling with patchy, slow and sometimes non-existent internet and […]
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Grocery startups on a mission to offer farmers fairer deals
Two fledgling food supply businesses are soon to go nationwide offering ranges of fruit, vegetables and other groceries to Kiwi shoppers. No doubt this will mean a better deal for […]
Suppliers need a fairer deal
With the Commerce Commission’s market study into the retail grocery sector drawing to its conclusion, Federated Farmers is calling for a fairer deal for suppliers. As a representative of food […]
Competition concerns spook bread wheat growers
Uncertainty over restrictive new buying practices and competition from the feed wheat industry has seen the nation’s arable growers cut back on sowing milling wheat – the wheat used for […]
Economic Week – July 30
Supermarkets under the spotlight. The Commerce Commission this week released a hard-hitting draft report on competition in the retail grocery sector, with supermarkets not coming out of it well. The […]