Farm Finance: Weak Capital Markets Hindering Farming Sector
FedFarmers CEO Conor English is warning NZ’s capital markets and economy are suffering from a lack of savings and capital depth. He says in …
Archive for August, 2010
Dairy Sector: Dairy Industry’s Image Has Taken A Drubbing
The dairy industry’s various battles over resources, including water, have meant new phrases have entered the public consciousness, like it or not. “Dirty dairying” …
Meat Sector: Meat Industry Can’t Take Blame For Its Decline
AFFCO’s independent directors have recommended minority shareholders don’t accept Talley’s Group’s 37c-a-share offer for the 47% of the meat processor it doesn’t already own …
Pollution: Farmers Pull Out Of Clean River Accord
Federated Farmers is risking public backlash over its attitude towards environmental protection by opting not to sign a previously agreed commitment to clean up …
Meat Sector: Latest Version Of Meat Strategy Aims To Lift Profits
Meat Industry Association (MIA) chairman Bill Falconer says there are no pre-conceived ideas of what the MIA/Beef & Lamb NZ sponsored meat sector strategy …
Trade: WTO Apple Ruling Lifts Barriers For Exports
NZ’s determined pursuit of its rights of access to the Australian apple market has implications for other exports of primary produce which end up …
Land Tenure: High Country Rents Put On Fairer Basis
Exactly how much rent to charge for the 231 pastoral leases of NZ’s photographically iconic high country farms has been a fraught discussion for …
Dairy Sector: Fonterra Says Milk Supply Low
There are a lot of nationally important issues playing out as the Govt figures out whether and how much, to whom, Fonterra should have …
Dairy: Calf Inducement Publicity Hurts Dairy Sector
Agriculture Minister David Carter calls it a beat-up and a one-sided story. He’s referring to the TVNZ item on inducing calves as part of …
Land Management: Farming and electricity industry expansion
The electricity industry is undergoing rapid expansion to try to keep up with growing demand and this means more physical impacts on farmland. It …
Farm Expertise: Export of farm know-how shows one size doesn’t fit all
Whatever the spin put on PGG Wrightson’s sale of its 11.5% stake of 28.1m shares in NZ Farming Systems Uruguay to Singaporean agribusiness and …
Regulation: Fed Farmers Hits At Big Government, Weak Capital Markets
Federated Farmers president Don Nicolson found the perfect soapbox for rural tub-thumping at the NZ Shareholders Assn AGM. By his numbers, pastoral agriculture generated …
Farms Left Out Of Energy Strategy
The draft energy efficiency strategy announced by Energy Minister Gerry Brownlee is short on both incentives and policy action. Instead we’re presented with a …
Meat Sector: Meat strategy timely, provided industry buys in
If the meat sector ever needed to get a strategy right, now’s a pretty good time to get a shared plan cranking. The just-announced …
