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Migrant dairy farm worker Christian Roxas says his prayers have been answered after immigration rules changed, allowing him to stay in New Zealand.

Regulations aimed at improving intensive winter grazing practices were supposed to come into effect from May, but were deferred until 2022. Now, they've been pushed back again.

“Farmers have been under increasing pressure for some time now to manage their environmental footprint, and those pressures are not only driven by Government regulation but by customers and consumer expectations, but also a drive from farmers themselves,” said DairyNZ chief executive Dr Tim Mackle. Supplied Government and industry are investing $22 million to expand a plantain research programme. ”We are committed to reducing our environmental footprint, now and in the long run. If we are going to be successful in rising to this challenge, we have got to continue to invest in tools fo...

Report from RNZ by Gill Bonnett New documents show tensions arose between government departments over who should get border exemptions, and how the dairy industry lost out in favour of space and film projects. The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) pushed back hard on proposals by the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), saying they seemed ‘arbitrarily limited to certain sectors’ and appeared ‘MBIE-centric’. Several of the projects that received approval for exemptions, such as workers on space and scientific research programmes, fall under MBIE, as does Immigr...

The horticulture and dairy industries are welcoming the government's six-month extension for about 10,000 Working Holiday visas and Supplementary Seasonal Employment work visas due to expire this year.