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Chemical recovery events planned for Canterbury farmers and growers

May 12, 2022 by Cameron MacDuff

Media release – Agrecovery Canterbury farmers and growers are being urged to make use of a subsidised programme to return their unwanted or expired agrichemicals. Throughout June, Agrecovery will be running several chemical recovery events in the Canterbury region. With free or subsidised recovery and disposal of more than 3000 products, the programme provides the […]

Milk company fined $30,000 for selling raw milk illegally

May 4, 2022 by Cameron MacDuff

Ministry for Primary Industries – Media Release A milk business has been fined $30,000 for not following the rules that regulate the supply and sale of raw milk. Following a successful prosecution by New Zealand Food Safety (NZFS), Manakau-based MannaMilk owner John Albert Martin (78) was today sentenced in the Levin District Court, Horowhenua. Mr […]

Andrew wraps the week…

March 25, 2022 by Rebecca Flannery

Andrew Hoggard with an update on He Waka Eke Noa. “We’ve been pushing for changes that we want to see, that we think make the farm level a better option than what it currently is. But it’s still too early to tell whether we’re going to get this thing in a good enough place that […]

Checklist helps farmers to be COVID-19 prepared

November 16, 2021 by Simon Edwards

Farmers: What’s your plan if someone in your family or among your staff tests positive for COVID-19? As COVID-19 vaccination rates build and New Zealand begins to transition to coping with the disease without lockdowns and less reliance on managed isolation facilities, the agri-sector and Ministry for Primary Industries have been working together to ensure […]

Sunsmart farming, is smart farming 

October 14, 2021 by Matthew Boyle

Federated Farmers is throwing its support behind the Melanoma New Zealand campaign to save farmers’ lives from skin cancer.  The annual campaign for this year ‘Get Spotted’ has just wrapped up, but the Melanoma New Zealand quest to see zero lives lost in New Zealand from melanoma goes on.  Federated Farmers vice president and Wairarapa […]

Sunsmart farming, is smart farming

October 6, 2021 by Matthew Boyle

Federated Farmers wants to remind farmers and growers this is a good time to be thinking about getting “sunsmart” for summer. More than 4000 people are diagnosed with melanoma every year, accounting for 80% of skin cancer deaths in New Zealand. It has been estimated up to 25% of farmers and growers have had a […]

Top shots capture on-farm safety theme

September 21, 2021 by Lauren Hale

Federated Farmers launched a safety awareness campaign at the start of September to try to avoid a spike of on-farm fatalities in spring such as occurred last year. Vice-president and healthy and safety spokesperson for Federated Farmers, Karen Williams, was determined to engage with rural New Zealand and encourage safe practices. The safety on-farm photo […]

Safety first for on-farm photo competition

September 3, 2021 by Lauren Hale

This time last year New Zealand lost five people in on-farm workplace accidents.  We can’t let that happen again this year.  Federated Farmers and our strategic partner Yamaha have teamed up to put together a photo competition to remind farmers, growers and their families how important it is to take care at work, in winter, […]

Feds backs the butcher, the baker, and the greengrocer – again

August 24, 2021 by Rebecca Flannery

Federated Farmers says the government needs to reconsider and let small business fresh food sellers stay open under level 4. Last year Federated Farmers national president Andrew Hoggard was vocal about Feds’ position. “We pleaded for common sense to prevail, we have had over one year to sort this out – yet it is not.” New […]

Spotlight on rail safety for rural workers and animals

August 19, 2021 by Lauren Hale

Raising rail safety awareness in rural New Zealand is the focus of a campaign launched by KiwiRail as part of Rail Safety Week this month. New research reveals more than three quarters of serious vehicle collisions with trains occur in provincial towns and rural areas with fewer than 75,000 people. Farmers and rural workers are […]

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