This is my final economic commentary for 2022, a year which has been challenging – to put it mildly. We have grappled with the ongoing effects of Covid-19 at home […]
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Vague improvements to the Government’s emissions levy not enough, change is needed to NZ’s broken methane targets
Source: Federated Farmers Today the Government announced changes to their October plan to price agricultural emissions, but the vague improvements are simply not enough and Feds remain opposed. While this […]
Economic Week – 4 November
Commodity prices dip again The ANZ World Commodity Price Index dipped again in October, extending its run of monthly losses to seven stretching back to March. Overall, it was down […]
Economic Week – 28 October
Farm sales slump The latest data on farm sales has shown a further slump in volumes and a drop in prices, according to the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand’s […]
Economic Week – October 21
Inflation shocker Annual inflation in the September 2022 quarter was 7.2%, much higher than all expectations and heaping pressure on the Reserve Bank to stamp harder on inflationary pressures. Statistics […]
Economic week – 23 September
Fonterra’s result Fonterra’s annual results for the year ending 31 July 2022 confirmed a 2021/22 farmgate milk price of $9.30 per kgMS, a record high, and a normalised profit after […]
Economic Week – 9 September
Sheep numbers up a little but outlook uncertain. Beef+Lamb New Zealand’s annual Stock Number Survey has shown a small increase in sheep but a decline in beef cattle. There were […]
Economic Week – 2 September
by Nick Clark, National Manager General Policy Fonterra trims milk price forecast Fonterra has made a small cut to its forecast Farmgate Milk Price range from $8.75-$10.25 per kgMS to […]
“Education over regulation”
Jason Herrick Southland Federated Farmers winter grazing spokesperson For as long as I can remember, the amount of poorly thought out policies and regulations, have been coming from central government […]
New arable tool aims to find true costs
Arable farmers must understand their ‘true cost’ of production to ensure continued financial viability – and Federated Farmers has a new spreadsheet designed to do exactly that. The cost of […]
