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“We just want to get on with it,” say Manawatu dairy farmers reacting to news that Horizons Regional Council’s One Plan implementation has effectively been ruled unlawful by the Environment Court.

Horizons Regional Council chairman Bruce Gordon has proudly accepted a Morgan Foundation River Award for the Makuri River at Tuscan Hills.

Federated Farmers says legal action announced last week against the Horizons Regional Council shows “some people just can’t accept that industry and councils can work together effectively”.

There are reports of more than 2000 slips on roads alone and countless more on farms, plus 25 road closures and a dozen farms underwater in the area covered by the Horizons Regional Council. 

Farmers and Horizons Regional Council were for years at each other’s throats over the infamous One Plan and the council’s stance seen by some as anti-farming.

Last week two international students joined the Horizons Regional Council’s pest plant team to go on the hunt for bio-control insects.

Three Massey science and agriculture students have been working with the Horizons Regional Council as part of the council’s Sustainable Land Use Initiative (SLUI) scholarship.

PROMISING FINDINGS of a Landcare Research sediment report have been delivered to Horizons Regional councillors.