The transition of Federated Farmers' national presidency from Wayne Langford to Colin Hurst in June 2026, marking a change in leadership of New Zealand's principal farming advocacy organisation.
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new vp reflects on legacy and future of farming advocacy
The Country 29/06/26: Sandra Faulkner talks to Hamish McKaypolitics of succession in primary industry body
Jamie Mackay: The Country host on Federated Farmers voting in a new presidentLobby groups, unions, think tanks and industry bodies whose own releases or whose people’s media appearances touched this topic over the last 12 months. Owned = their own press releases; earned = their people quoted across radio, press & commentary. A card carried in both — with the release coming first — is the agenda-setting signal. Co-occurrence isn’t proof a group drove the coverage.
new president faces internal political tensions
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How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 3 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
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Yeah. Yeah. Big big job ahead. But I I I don't know. I I feel underway, and I I I feel as a kind of a neutral observer that there …
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