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Greetings, We hope calving is going well this year. With a few beautiful days of sunshine and Fonterra’s promise of $0.50¢ increase, morale has certainly improved.  Last week GDT showed another good lift, let’s hope this cements the $0.50¢ and may mean that they give out more than $0.10¢ before Christmas. Its springtime and the […]

Hi All The warm weather continues to hold with our farming clients enjoying a little rain but on the watch for facial eczema.  This has also meant that we have received a few buckets of mushrooms – much appreciated. Our new staff have been inducted with: Anna – on reception; Caroline – contract Accounts Manager;

The warmer weather and holiday period is looming fast. December is a busy month for the office with many GST returns to file in a reduced number of working days. Fonterra continues to keep us guessing with the payout. The recent auction volatility indicates that there may be a cut to the predicted milk payout

Spring is in the air and the ladies in the office have sprung this photo surprise on me. It’s going back a few years now and also a few hair follicles. The decrease in the milk pay-out has probably made you feel like pulling your hair out too. These months where there have been minimal

The new financial year is here and the work seems to be flying in faster than previous years. I suspect that for our farming clients this is due to worry around the payout and the effect this will have on the resulting tax. It certainly is going to be a testing time for many farmers

Welcome to the first newsletter of 2015. I trust you all had an enjoyable break (what break?) and have made your new year’s resolutions an everyday habit by now. It was a pretty quiet start to the year here but things have started to pick up with some re-estimation of farmers tax in line with

Hi all, Where did 2014 go? Its hard to believe this is the Christmas newsletter but great to think Summer is just around the corner. Its been a busy year with plenty happening and a lot of change in the economy has meant a range of implications for our clients. I want to take a

Hi all, Spring is almost here and most of our farming client’s are flat out with calving. The winter hasn’t been too harsh to us this year but I don’t want to jinx that for the upcoming months. Fonterra have done what many expected and reduced the pay-out with many expecting a further decrease. As

Hi all, Well it’s been a busy start to the financial year for us here at Hughson & Associates with a number of you handing in the required information very promptly. Thank you for this. I trust you all had an enjoyable Easter and ANZAC weekend(s) and made the most of the days off. Some

With being a farmer you are no doubt enjoying the increased pay-outs, that are long deserved! With this being a good season so far, it provides you the opportunity to potentially pay down debt, which no doubt was largely been attributed from previous tough seasons and now you can enjoy reaping the rewards. As stated