4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (458+ words) Labour’s climate policy – including a commitment not to campaign on taxing agricultural emissions and an urgent review of the Emissions Trading Scheme – has been welcomed by Federated Farmers and Beef + Lamb New Zealand. Labour has campaigned on taxing farm emissions…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (559+ words) Giles Dexter of RNZ The Advertising Standards Authority has partly upheld a complaint against a National Party attack ad, and told the party not to use it again in its current form. The complaint focused around National’s criticisms of Labour’s…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (337+ words) Federated Farmers is urging the Government to keep moving forward with promised KiwiSaver amendment legislation before the House rises for the election. The KiwiSaver (First Home or Farm) Amendment Bill, which will allow farm workers to use their KiwiSaver savings…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (206+ words) Rural leader Mark Hooper has been appointed an independent director on the NZPork board. Hooper is a Lepperton dairy farmer and former Taranaki Federated Farmers president. He was elected to Federated Farmers’ national board in 2022 and has been closely involved…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago   (391+ words) Rebecca Hogan for LDR A reduction in government road funding of about 2% per year over three years will cost the Tararua district nearly $1.3 million. The district’s mayor Scott Gilmore said it was “disappointing” essential funding tailored to local government and…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (401+ words) A research project exploring how agricultural stakeholders respond to and make decisions about emerging technologies aims to better understand how farm data is governed, shared and used in New Zealand’s rapidly evolving agricultural landscape. As a global leader in agricultural…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (965+ words) The NZ Transport Agency is cutting the amount of funding it gives some councils to help with essential infrastructure, prompting calls for a review of how the calculations were done. Among them is Tararua District Council, which said the agency’s…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (206+ words) Last week’s poll question is based on the Feds count cost of Opportunity Party’s proposed land tax article. We asked readers: Would you support a land value tax on rural land? And it’s a no from me. Voters were asked…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (208+ words) The councils of Otago’s two largest urban areas have let the rest of the province down with their local government reorganisation proposals, Federated Farmers Otago president Anna Gillespie says. “If they get their way, they’ll pretty much disenfranchise the entire…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (307+ words) A Waikato sharemilker has welcomed legislation introduced in Parliament this week allowing farm workers to access their KiwiSaver savings to buy a house or farm. Danielle Hovmand has spent five years seeking the change and said once it has become…...