Federated Farmers

It’s a baptism of fire for new Southland  Fed Farmers Chairman Geoffrey Young with the M. bovis outbreak, a swede seed mix up and debate over Environment Southland's revised water and land plan.

Federated Farmers is pursuing another council over its GM-free status, despite a losing a string of court battles with other councils over the issue.

West Coast dairy farmer Katie Milne talks about life on the farm at Rotomanu, educating kids about agriculture, confronting environmental issues and some of the other challenges she's faced so far as…

Federated Farmers say the government's tax working group needs someone who understands the industry.

Paul 'Spud' Olsen grow potatoes in Opiki and keeps putting his hand up to be involved in farming and growing organisations.

The farming sector needs to wake up to environmental challenges after being in a bubble under the previous government, a rural economist says.

Highly paid chief executives - such as Fonterra head Theo Spierings - are paid more in societies that are more tolerant of inequality, a researcher says. Audio

$18 cabbages? An extra $75 for wine? Eye-watering claims about the crippling costs of charging for water floated free in the media this past week - even in the rural press which should have known…

Charging royalties to commercial water bottlers and irrigation scheme users will "open a can of worms" and put many farmers out of business, Federated Farmers says.

Businesses and political parties have thrown their weight behind a recommendation from the environment watchdog to make emissions reductions legally binding, but the government is proving to be a…