Displaying items by tag: Sam McIvor

While the outlook for global sheepmeat and beef trade is improving, Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) says it expects farmer profitability to fall sharply due to reduced livestock prices and continued high inflation.

OPINION: 'Fix the rural roads now' is the essence of the message to government - both central and local - from B+LNZ chief executive Sam McIvor and other rural leaders.

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.

Red meat farmers want the Government to urgently commit to road repairs in isolated Hawke’s Bay and Tairawhiti farming communities.

Beef + Lamb NZ (B+LNZ) chief executive Sam McIvor says Cyclone Gabrielle is having a devastating impact on farmers and rural communities already under significant stress and pressure.

Reaction to the latest missive from the Government is somewhat muted and there appears to be a sense of suspicion of where emissions pricing may end.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand has called on the Government to shelve plans to finalise decisions around the National Policy Statement for Indigenous Biodiversity.

Beef + Lamb NZ (B+LNZ) says it is deeply unhappy with what it describes as the Government's 'flawed' emissions pricing proposal.

Research commissioned by Federated Farmers and Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) has found almost two thirds of Kiwis oppose foreign companies buying New Zealand farms to offset their emissions.

Beef + Lamb NZ (B+LNZ) directors and senior staff have been told to shape up or ship out, as farmer anger boils over about proposed farm emissions taxes.