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EW outlines new consent charges

16 Dec 09 | Environment Waikato is announcing details of the indicative charges farmers will face for new consents in the Lake Taupo catchment.

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1080 report released

16 Dec 09 | The Environmental Risk Management Authority has released its second annual report on the aerial use of 1080.

Agribusiness and General - General

16 Dec 09 | The success of New Zealand’s economy depends on the kind of innovations and initiatives in agriculture that seed distributor Seed Force has made in developing its new facility in Christchurch.

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Send Straight Furrow your photos

16 Dec 09 | Send us your summer on the farm pictures and be in to win another great prize from Telecom - a Sony Ericson C150 mobile phone (RRP $399).

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Stats point to strong dairy recovery

10 Dec 09 | The New Zealand dairy industry is showing signs of strong recovery following the widespread and sustained drought in 2007/08 with a 9.7% increase in milksolids processed in the 2008/09 season.

Agribusiness and General - General

Fonterra retention 'too small'

10 Dec 09 | Federated Farmers welcomes Fonterra’s announcement of an annual retention but believes the amount retained by the co-operative is far too small.

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Farmers back 27:27:27 tax model

10 Dec 09 | Federated Farmers has expressed its backing of the Tax Working Group’s goal of making 27 percent, the top rate for personal, company as well as trust tax. Yet the Federation was far less keen on some of the options for getting there.

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The future of dairy farming?

10 Dec 09 | Federated Farmers is supporting the right of farmers in the MacKenzie Basin to submit a resource consent application. It believes that ever tighter regional council and national rules may force other farmers to consider this type of farming too.

Agribusiness and General - General

Blogs

The worth of water

27 Mar 12 | There is no life without water and as Benjamin Franklin quite rightly said, when the well runs dry, we learn the worth of water. For as long as New Zealand remains sparsely populated our well will never be dry.

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