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Cut the red tape - Feds

Fed Farmers president Andrew Hoggard is asking Environment Minister David Parker to promptly amend the RMA to enable cycloneaffected farmers and growers to undertake remedial work.

Federated Farmers says it is pleased that Horizons Regional Council (Manawatu-Whanganui) has recognised the need to get work done on-farm by empowering them to fix infrastructure without getting consents.

RMA reforms not popular

Environment Minister David Parker’s proposed RMA amendments are not proving to be popular.

It's a resounding ‘no’ to the first two laws in the Government’s Resource Management Act (RMA) reform package.

Doing nothing is not an option, NZ farmers warned

Simon Upton says the argument that NZ is not causing any more global warming than it currently does won’t cut it with the rest of the world.

A warning for people who say all NZ has to do is argue that it is not causing any more global warming than it currently does: That argument won’t cut it with the rest of the world, according to the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton.

More money for cyclone clean-up

An additional $26 million has been made available for farmers and growers to clean up their land damaged by Cyclone Gabrielle.

Market trends crucial - O'Connor

Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor claims concerns around climate change are driving international consumer preferences.

Look for market trends, rather than market signals.

Dairy prices static as season nears end

Westpac senior agricultural economist Nathan Penny.

With less than three months left in the 2022-23 season, the window for farmgate milk prices to lift is closing.

Hort sector hit hard! - O'Neil

HortNZ chair Barry O’Neil believes some growers will have to walk away from their land.

"We're not in a good place and some growers will have to just walk away from their land.”

Testy time expected at B+LNZ annual meeting

North Otago farmer Jane Smith is urging farmers to vote in the upcoming B+LNZ elections.

With the B+LNZ annual meeting documentation currently hitting farmer's mailboxes, claims are being made that with the unprecedented number of farmer-proposed remits the organisation has become disconnected from its grassroots levy payers. David Anderson reports.

Clock ticking on roading

Beef+Lamb NZ’s chief executive Sam McIvor says famers are rightly concerned about the state of roading infrastructure in rural areas and need accurate timelines as to when these will be fixed.

Sam McIvor says unless road access, capable of taking stock trucks, is restored to farmers in cyclone ravaged areas within six weeks there will be massive long term problems.