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Tuesday, 03 March 2026 14:25

RMA Betrayal?

Written by  Milking It
RMA Betrayal?

OPINION: Is it a case of over promising and under delivering? Farmers think so.

After promising an overhaul of the Resource Management Act (RMA), the Government's proposal has farmer groups fuming.

Most farmer lobby groups claim the current plans to overhaul the RMA could make things "substantially worse".

The Government has been harping on about their efforts to make regulations more farmer friendly.

But concerns right across the primary sector shows that some proposals to reform the RMA are anything but farmer friendly.

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