Story: Farmer and grower organisations

More links and websites

• Federated Farmers of New Zealand

  This website gives membership information, sector news and events listings.

• New Zealand Deer Farmers’ Association

  Information about the Deer Farmers’ Association, on the Deer Industry New Zealand site.

• The Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand

  An umbrella organisation for Agricultural and Pastoral associations and breed societies, this society gives information and news about these groups.

• Tāhuri Whenua – National Māori Vegetable Growers Collective

  Information relating to Māori interests in the horticulture sector.

More suggestions and sources

• Growing together: seventy-fifth jubilee. Wellington: New Zealand Fruitgrowers, 1991.

• Portrait of change: a record of Country Women’s Institute in New Zealand. Wellington: New Zealand Country Women’s Institute, 1996.

• Service simply given, 1925–1975: Women’s Division of Federated Farmers golden jubilee. Wellington: Women’s Division Federated Farmers, 1975.

• Smith, Rosemary. ‘Rural Women.’ In Women together: a history of women’s organisations in New Zealand / Ngā rōpū wāhine o te motu, edited by Anne Else. Wellington: Historical Branch of Internal Affairs/Daphne Brasell, 1993, updated 2018.

• Treadwell, Hugh. Show biz: the history of the Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand, 1923–2003. Taupo: Hugh Treadwell, 2006.