Opinion: How sheep and beef farmers tackled a tough year
22 Dec, 2020 09:00 PM
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The Country
Opinion: Beef + Lamb New Zealand chairman Andrew Morrison and Beef + Lamb New Zealand CEO Sam McIvor reflect on the challenges of 2020, and look to the future for the red meat sector.
The response to adversity in 2020 has really underlined the passion, pride and resilience of sheep and beef farmers and our processing companies.
This in-built resilience has stood the sector in good stead during 2020 and underlined its critical contribution to our communities, to the environment, and to New Zealand s economy.
In the face of disruption caused by the global pandemic, our sheep and beef sector showed tremendous agility in where it exported and how the product was delivered to consumers.
Freshwater rule changes suggested
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By: Sally Rae
Beef + Lamb New Zealand says the Southland Advisory Group s recommendations on the intensive winter grazing rules offer practical alternatives to arbitrary rules .
The group was asked to look at the implementation of the intensive winter grazing rules within the new National Environmental Standards for Freshwater.
It included farmers, and staff from B+LNZ, DairyNZ, Federated Farmers, Fish and Game and Environment Southland.
It provided its advice to Environment Minister David Parker and Agriculture Minister Damien O Connor last week.
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In a statement, B+LNZ chairman Andrew Morrison, a Southland farmer, said the Environment Southland-led process had been a highly effective way of addressing major concerns with the new rules, and it was hoped the ministers would accept the recommendations.
Press Release – Retail Meat New Zealand The results of the most important vote of the year are in; lamb will be the most popular protein on Kiwis plates on Christmas Day. The result comes as part of the Classic Kiwi Christmas Survey the third edition of the poll run by Retail …
The results of the most important vote of the year are in; lamb will be the most popular protein on Kiwis’ plates on Christmas Day.
The result comes as part of the Classic Kiwi Christmas Survey – the third edition of the poll run by Retail Meat New Zealand in conjunction with Beef + Lamb New Zealand.
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Monday, 21 December 2020, 10:10 am
The results of the most important vote of the year are
in; lamb will be the most popular protein on Kiwis’ plates
on Christmas Day.
The result comes as part of the
Classic Kiwi Christmas Survey – the third edition of the
poll run by Retail Meat New Zealand in conjunction with Beef
+ Lamb New Zealand.
The poll of over 1,800 Kiwis
covering a range of Christmas traditions, saw lamb rise to
the top as the go-to meat of choice with 37% of respondents
saying they’ll be serving it for Christmas. Ham was very
close second with 32% and beef came third with