Rural Lobbying: Cater Challenges Fed Farmers To Justify Subscriptions
Farmers have found a taste for voting with their feet in recent years – witness the end of the wool levy. Agriculture Minister David …
Archive for June, 2010
Tax: End to gift duty will be fillip for farming families
Revenue Minister Peter Dunne has flagged the Govt is considering ending gift duty – the impost originally put in place to prevent people avoiding …
Meat Industry: Dairy outlook bullish but with ups and downs
A bullish assessment by MAF in its Situation and Outlook report for the primary sector suggests dairy exports will soar almost 60% by value …
Dairy Sector: Dairy Outlook Bullish, But With Ups And Downs
A bullish assessment by MAF in its Situation and Outlook report for the primary sector suggests dairy exports will soar almost 60% by value …
Irrigation: Shorter is better for centre pivot irrigators
New research on the effectiveness of centre pivot irrigators suggest the old maxim of longer is better and more efficient may not be the …
Emissions: Dairy Intensification needed to combat ETS
Fedfarmers claims MAF’s own cost figures for the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), indicate the national dairy herd will need to expand by 88,000 cows …
Farm Finance: Higher Interest rates Won’t Help Farming Cause
Federated Farmers didn’t have any real chance of success when it pleaded with Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard on the eve of his policy …
Research: Boost For Research On insect resistant grasses
The Primary Growth Partnership (PGP) has invested of $1.73m into research and product development to help deter wildlife (birds) and insects from eating crops. …
Trade: FTA talks with Russia positive step
NZ could be justifiably proud of the growth in exports to Russia in the past decade, at close to 270%, were it not for …
Rural Politics: Breakaway Rural Party Still In Incubator
Don’t get too excited about any early rising of a rural political party in NZ. There’s a fair bit of discontent about the Emissions …
Emissions: Review steps built into adding farming to ETS
NZ has two opportunities to change its mind on bringing agriculture into the ETS in 2015. Agriculture Minister David Carter says the date was …
Dairy Sector: Exuberant predictions for milk payment contain risks
Fonterra’s announcement of a forecast 2011 milk payment of $6.90 to $7.10 is encouraging news but the headline grabber was chairman Henry van der …
