Press Release – ACT New Zealand The Government must listen to feedback from farmers on its freshwater rules, says ACTs Primary Industries spokesperson Mark Cameron. Stuff reports that the Southland Advisory Group has recommended pugging rules and resowing dates be scrapped …
“The Government must listen to feedback from farmers on its freshwater rules,” says ACT’s Primary Industries spokesperson Mark Cameron.
Stuff reports that the Southland Advisory Group has recommended pugging rules and resowing dates be scrapped from the National Environmental Standards for Freshwater.
“ACT has said from the outset that the rules are impractical and will seriously impact on production.
Press Release – ACT New Zealand The Government must listen to feedback from farmers on its freshwater rules, says ACTs Primary Industries spokesperson Mark Cameron. Stuff reports that the Southland Advisory Group has recommended pugging rules and resowing dates be scrapped …
“The Government must listen to feedback from farmers on its freshwater rules,” says ACT’s Primary Industries spokesperson Mark Cameron.
Stuff reports that the Southland Advisory Group has recommended pugging rules and resowing dates be scrapped from the National Environmental Standards for Freshwater.
“ACT has said from the outset that the rules are impractical and will seriously impact on production.
Thursday, 17 December 2020, 6:04 am
“The Government must listen to feedback from farmers on
its freshwater rules,” says ACT’s Primary Industries
spokesperson Mark Cameron.
Stuff
reports that the Southland Advisory Group has
recommended pugging rules and resowing dates be scrapped
from the National Environmental Standards for
Freshwater.
“ACT has said from the outset that the
rules are impractical and will seriously impact on
production.
“Last
week, an Economic Impact Report on Land and Water
Management in the Ashburton District suggested the rules
would reduce farm profitability by 83 percent a
year.
“As a result, farmers won’t be able to
invest in their operations, with farm expenditure estimated
ROBERT KITCHIN/Stuff O’Connor has previously said the freshwater rules could be ‘’tweaked”. New intensive winter grazing regulations come into force in May 2021, as part of the Essential Freshwater package, but many farmers have called them impractical, and there have been protests and calls for the rules to be boycotted. The Southland Advisory Group was formed and asked to look at the implementation of the intensive winter grazing rules. The advisory group included two farmers, and staff from Beef + Lamb NZ, DairyNZ, Federated Farmers, Fish & Game, and Environment Southland, who have worked together on finding practical solutions to some of the issues raised with implementing the regulations across the country.
Wednesday, 16 December, 2020 - 14:05
The Southland Advisory Group established to look at the national intensive winter grazing regulations was very pleased to provide their advice to Ministers Parker and O’Connor this week.
Following a meeting with the Ministers in September, a group was formed and asked to look at the implementation of the intensive winter grazing rules within the new National Environmental Standards for Freshwater.
The group included several farmers, and staff from Beef + Lamb NZ, DairyNZ, Federated Farmers, Fish and Game and Environment Southland, who have worked together on finding practical solutions to some of the issues raised with implementing the regulations across the country.