Feds survey shows farmer confidence has bounced back 2 Feb, 2021 11:00 PM 3 minutes to read The Country Farmer confidence has bounced back to where it was pre-Covid, but attracting and retaining staff remains a headache, according to the latest Federated Farmers Farm Confidence Survey. Of the nearly 1,100 farmers who completed the Research First survey in the second week of January, a net 5.5 per cent considered current economic conditions to be good. This was a 34-point jump from the July 2020 survey, when a net 28.6 per cent considered them bad, marking the lowest level of farmer confidence in the 12 years the six-monthly survey had been conducted.