Displaying items by tag: CHRIS HIPKINS

OPINION: It's the season of Government u-turns on key policies and farmers are hoping it will extend to the ban on live cattle exports.

OPINION: Satisfying, but not at all surprising, that the messages from agriculture sector groups to new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins were more or less entirely in tune.

ACT agriculture spokesman Mark Cameron last week wrote to new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins calling for a rethink on agricultural emissions pricing. Here’s his letter:

DairyNZ chair Jim van der Poel says he’s looking forward to meeting the new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins in the coming weeks to brief him on the issues facing the dairy sector.

OPINION: The sudden resignation of Jacinda Ardern and installation of Chris Hipkins as Prime Minister will see many in the farming sector looking to the old maxim about 'putting lipstick on a pig' - which means making superficial or cosmetic changes to a product in a futile effort to disguise its fundamental failings.

Emergency Management minister Kieran McAnulty picked up two new portfolios in yesterday’s cabinet reshuffle.

Beef+Lamb NZ chair Andrew Morrison says new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins should understand the huge amount of financial pressure that dry stock farmers are facing when he and his cabinet review what projects should be scrapped or revisited.

"We'll take what wins we can get."

Within hours of Chris Hipkins being sworn in as the new Prime Minister, the red meat sector issued a series of demands it wants the country's politicians to address in forthcoming election campaign.

The first stage of one-way quarantine-free travel with Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu will begin in October, initially for RSE workers, Covid-19 Response Minister and Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor have announced.