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Greenpeace 'lost' in its anti-farming obsession

While Federated Farmers defends the right to protest legally, Greenpeace’s desperate smear campaign against Fonterra and dairy farming reflects an organisation that has lost sight of what its purpose is. “Greenpeace is only green in the first five ...

From FEDERATED FARMERS OF NEW ZEALAND, InfoNews.co.nz,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Greenpeace,  David Rose

Farmers want bipartisan agreement to lift science investment

In its submission to the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology, Federated Farmers has called for the biological economy to be prioritised, with bipartisan backing for three percent of Gross Domestic Product to be put into science and research. “ ...

From FEDERATED FARMERS OF NEW ZEALAND, InfoNews.co.nz,  21 Nov 2009

Federated Farmers gets in behind Books in Homes

Educating young New Zealanders from low decile schools about farming is why Federated Farmers backs the efforts of Christine Fernyhough - philanthropist, farmer, inventor and author of Ben and Mark, Boys of the High Country. “Duffy Books in Homes ...

From FEDERATED FARMERS OF NEW ZEALAND, InfoNews.co.nz,  19 Nov 2009

Monetary policy works, so why isn't it?

Opposition leader, the Hon Phil Goff MP, has told Federated Farmers National Council in Wellington today that the Reserve Bank Act and monetary policy targets and tools are struggling to rein in the Kiwi dollar and deliver appropriate interest ...

From FEDERATED FARMERS OF NEW ZEALAND, InfoNews.co.nz,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Phil Goff

Decisive Fonterra result hailed

Federated Farmers is hailing Fonterra’s decisive capital structure result as a victory for the cooperative model. “At just under 90 percent, it’s a decisive and overwhelming statement for the future of Fonterra,” says Willy Leferink, Federated Farmers ...

From FEDERATED FARMERS OF NEW ZEALAND, InfoNews.co.nz,  17 Nov 2009

The future of perpetual compensation for power lines

Federated Farmers has successfully negotiated a ‘sunset clause’ with Transpower that opens the way for future annual compensation payments when productive land is lost to transmission line projects. “Farmers are all amped up over the prospect of future ...

From FEDERATED FARMERS OF NEW ZEALAND, InfoNews.co.nz,  17 Nov 2009

Aussie farmers out of ETS 'faster than a rat up a drainpipe'

As predicted by Federated Farmers two weeks ago, Australia’s Federal Government yesterday opted to permanently exclude farmers from its emissions trading scheme (ETS). “Australia is finally taking a pragmatic approach to emissions legislation,” says ...

From FEDERATED FARMERS OF NEW ZEALAND, InfoNews.co.nz,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Penny Wong,  John Key

New Zealand MTB Orienteering Championships

Orienteers and pro elite mountain bikers shared the spoils at the New Zealand MTB Orienteering (MTB-O) Championships in Whakarewarewa Forest in Rotorua over the weekend of 14th and 15th November. With a national elite Sprint orienteering title and top 2 ...

From NZ ORIENTEERING FEDERATION, InfoNews.co.nz,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Thomas Reynolds

Farmers sign-on to Asia business education partnership

To help New Zealand make the most of opportunities in the Asian century, Federated Farmers has signed-on to the Business Education Partnership – designed to inform young New Zealanders about Asia. “With the Trans-Pacific Partnership in the offing, ...

From FEDERATED FARMERS OF NEW ZEALAND, InfoNews.co.nz,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: World Bank

Barack in the free trade business

In the space of just 24 hours, New Zealand has got welcome confirmation the United States is to take part in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. This news coming hard on the heels of yesterday’s New Zealand – Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Agreement. ...

From FEDERATED FARMERS OF NEW ZEALAND, InfoNews.co.nz,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Senate,  European Union,  Ron Kirk

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