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The New Zealand Young Farmers, a national organisation formed in 1927 with regional clubs throughout the country, runs the annual Young Farmer Contest. Irrigation New Zealand, a national body representing farmers who use irrigation as well as the irrigation industry, opposes water conservation orders .
The group has also sought to oppose or revise freshwater, indigenous biodiversity, climate change, pastoral land reform policies, and the Three Waters reform programme affecting farmers and rural communities [1] [2] On 16 July 2021, Groundswell NZ staged a nationwide Howl of a Protest campaign in between 47 and 57 cities and towns throughout ...
In 2009 they owned 22 farms, 18 of which are dairy, and 20,000 cows, [3] making them New Zealand's largest family owned dairy business. [ 5 ] During the 2000s CraFarms was prosecuted multiple times in the Environment Court for unlawfully discharging stock effluent. [ 6 ]
The agricultural emissions research levy was a controversial tax proposal in New Zealand. It was first proposed in 2003 and would collect an estimated $8.4 million annually from livestock farmers (out of an estimated annual $50–125 million in costs to the public which is caused by farm animals' emissions of greenhouse gases such as methane), and which would have been used to fund research on ...
New Zealand farmers (7 C, 124 P) Forestry in New Zealand (8 C, 19 P) ... Common brushtail possum in New Zealand; Country Calendar; Crown Pastoral Land Act 1998; D.
The Mother of All Protests was a series of nationwide protests in New Zealand on 21 November 2021, organised by the farming advocacy group Groundswell NZ to oppose the government's rural sector regulations and policies. [1] Protests took place in 70 cities and towns across New Zealand.
Andrew John Hoggard (born 1974 or 1975) is a New Zealand dairy farmer and farming leader, and served as president of Federated Farmers between 2020 and 2023. He was elected as a list MP for ACT New Zealand at the 2023 general election .
From 1903 to 1905 the Rangitikei Advocate was associated with the Farmers’ Advocate, a weekly published in Marton that was the official voice of the newly formed New Zealand Farmers’ Union. The Rangitikei Advocate closed on 1 February 1941. The weekly Rangitikei News ran from 1948 to 1955. It was replaced by the Rangitikei Mail. [6]