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𝗙𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝘀: 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗱, 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗱, 𝗨𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝘅 𝗴𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗯𝘆 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀.
It may only be the 24th of November, but today is probably feeling a lot like Christmas for
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It’s absolutely ridiculous that the Government have chosen to install petroleum-based synthetic carpets in New Zealand classrooms instead of using sustainable natural alternatives.
This decision completely flies in the face of all the Government’s rhetoric about improving
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We are so sick of
@greenpeacenz
misinformation on this issue.
At the following link we post 6 references to scientists saying GreenPeace is wrong. We have written to GreenPeace outlining this.
What else can we do to get through to them?
PRESS RELEASE
Unprecedented nitrate contamination map of NZ launched with a challenge to Act Party’s new agriculture minister, Andrew Hoggard via
@GreenpeaceNZ
#nzpol
#TooManyCows
#health
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Stop lying
@GreenpeaceNZ
🤥
NZ dairy is not "mid range"
We may have to report you to the disinformation project 😎
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𝗙𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗙𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶-𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶-𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
@GreenpeaceNZ
have shown they are nothing but an anti-farming lobby group by criticising Fonterra’s new on-farm emissions targets, says Federated Farmers
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“Can you please put me through to Prime Minister Luxon? I want to talk about David Parker’s unworkable farming regulations” 📞
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Great coverage over the weekend in rural papers on Feds calling out
@GreenpeaceNZ
being taken over by anti-farming activists.
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With Ireland beating England overnight, the All Blacks ranking remains number 2 for now.
Kiwis can be very proud of our farmers though, ranked number 1 for low ghg milk 🥛 😋
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Now is not the time to be adding cost and uncertainty on farmers
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After flying to the Arctic to watch the Northern Lights,
@peta
spokesperson Emily Rice helped save the planet by wearing cotton rather than wool..... 🤔
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𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿’𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗴𝗼!
(Post 1 of 2)
If the incoming Government are looking for ways to restore farmer confidence quickly, then repealing David Parker’s unworkable freshwater reforms must be at the very top
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Nick is a very confused young man unfortunately. NZ farmers are leading the world in producing emissions efficient meat & dairy. Reducing production here will only lead to more climate change.
@FedFarmers
While the world burns and floods around us, it's tone-deaf to be still complaining about having to cut climate emissions.
#ClimateCrisis
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Nick, this is very irresponsible to spread misinformation on social media. You know 99%+ of scientists agree there is no link between nitrates in water & colon cancer
(please don't send us your own "research", it's very cringe).
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Jodiesha Kirkpatrick is only 17 years old. 200 sheep shorn yesterday. Bloody impressive effort!
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Feds Board Member Mark Hooper says it's hard to believe any MPs had time to read through the 1000 pages of changes to the replacement RMA rushed through Parliament last week.
The new law strips most rule making away from democratic councils and gives it to new Regional Planning
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After a payout downgrade this morning, it was pretty tone-deaf of the Government to want to talk about plans for an emissions tax.
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This election campaign needs to be much more focused on plans to grow the economy out of this mess.
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Let’s not forget that the challenge we’re trying to address here is global warming, not New Zealand warming.
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Can't argue with science
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This is the most important election in living memory for Kiwi farmers and the 2.5 million New Zealanders who live in rural communities.
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Last week MfE offered us funding to participate in plan development for Freshwater Reform and RMA Reform. Contracts to be signed by 'mid October'.
We have turned it down,
(a) We don't think taxpayers should be paying for advocacy - we are the independent voice of farming, not
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Just in case anyone was wondering what unconstructive climate alarmism looks like, this is it 👇
This year alone,
@Fonterra
is directly responsible for the deaths of 2,890 people. 2,890 mothers, sons, spouses.
This is from their 12.8m tonnes of emissions - using a conservative mortality cost formula of 226 deaths per million tonnes of carbon, used by the US EPA & others.
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Rangiora Highschool to convert its farm away from animals as "The world is shifting to be more sustainable" and so they can
"Ensure what [they] do is ethical."
... do they not realise NZ lamb is highly sustainable? And the world wants more of it?
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This is the madness of GWP100.
Geoff thinks eating a mix of sugar, coconut & cocoa, grown in tropics & imported to NZ, then frozen, is better for climate / health than a fresh glass of pasture based milk or nice steak 🙈
Groundswell and
@FedFarmers
can whine about consumer climate action expectations, but as the saying goes, the customer is always right, and with vegan I cream this good I really don’t give a damn.
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Congratulations to immediate past National President Federated Farmers Andrew Hoggard and immediate past President Otago Federated Farmers Mark Patterson for becoming ministers outside of cabinet today.
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New Zealand exports over $20 Billion worth of dairy products each year. A 5% reduction would be absolutely devastating for New Zealand and our rural communities.
Why is NZ cherry picking how we read the
#ParisAgreement
?
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Did you know New Zealand meat producers are amongst the most carbon efficient in the world?
This was confirmed in an independent study carried out by
@AgResearchNEWS
in 2022 commissioned by
@NZBeefLamb
👏👏👏
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Great news for Kiwi farmers! 🥝 🐄 🍷 🐑 🧀🍞
& economy! 💵
The new NZ-UK free trade agreement came into force this week. The deal will see tariff-free dairy trade after 5 years, and beef and lamb tariffs to phase down over the next 15 years.
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Bay of Plenty farmer Shannon Munro thinks she will be $150,000 in the red this year 😢
Without farmers making profit & paying taxes, expect the govt books will follow. This election needs to focus on rebuilding economic stability & confidence.
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BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨
NewsHub has revealed Ute Taxes will go up $1700
This money will go to EV buyers rather than fixing pot holes
What do farmers think?
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Did you know that New Zealand dairy farmers have the lowest carbon footprint per litre of milk in the world? 🥛
This was confirmed in a study carried out by
@AgResearchNEWS
in 2021 commissioned by
@DairyNZ
.
Maybe not a good idea to reduce our production 🙃
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Great news
Rangiora High School was considering moving away from animal agriculture
Feds North Canterbury provincial president Karl Dean wrote to the school calling for a rethink
A plan has now been agreed that will keep animals on the farm 👏 👏 👏
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The announcement made this afternoon is completely tone-deaf to the reality rural New Zealanders are living with.
Read our view on today's HWEN announcement here:
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Whoever forms the next Government needs to take swift action to return confidence to rural communities. When rural communities are growing & confident, New Zealand is growing & confident.
Feds Roadmap To Restore Farmer Confidence:
👩🌾👨🌾🚜🐄🐑🌾😊☺️📈📈
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Carbon farming is having a devastating impact on the well-being of our rural communities.
When carbon farming moves in, people move out, undermining the viability of local communities.
Is carbon farming keeping with the Paris Commitment of not threatening food production?
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Breaking news! Emma Poole has won FMG Young Farmer of the Year - the first woman in the competitions 55 year history. Talk about smashing the grass ceiling!
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"Most New Zealanders know which side their bread is buttered," says Dr Jacqueline Rowarth as she makes the case to get Young Farmer of the Year back on TV.
We agree. There is real resurgence in love for farmers at the moment so the show would be popular!
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Minister needs to read
#ParisAgreement
again - our reductions should be science based, not GWP based
Climate Change Minister James Shaw has rejected a claim in a new report that the way methane is calculated disproportionately burdens the livestock industry.
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Congratulations to former Federated Farmers President Andrew Hoggard who was elected to Parliament over the weekend. Your new branding might be pink, but we know you’ll always be green and black at heart! 💚 🖤
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If you are worried about rules allowing 3 story high houses, 🏠
WAIT till you find out under the proposed RMA replacement all town planning will be done by undemocratic 'Planning Committees!
Join Feds &
@TaxpayersUnion
to find out more:
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"This is just another cost on a productive sector already under huge pressure with rapidly increasing costs and slipping commodity prices," says transport spokesperson Mark Hooper.
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NZ can be proud to be the world's most efficient producers of such an amazing product!
"Milk is a manifestation of 100s of millions of years of evolutionary tinkering that have turned it into a diet, & a developmental stimulus, & a conduit for maternal-infant communication, and
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Congratulations Miles, Jo, Suze, Mike, Grant, Mark, Barbara, Nicola & Andrew, great to have so much farmer representation in the next Parliament!
(Sorry if we missed anyone!)
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The Paris Agreement Aim includes "low greenhouse gas development, in a manner that does not threaten food production."
Is NZ policy of converting farmland to carbon forestry consistent with this?
Would a tax that reduced sheep & beef production by 20% be consistent?
Feds view:
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Northland MP Grant McCallum says proposed new rules for Northland are fallout from the Labour Government's national policy statement for freshwater management.
"It's a classic example of the over-reach and over-regulation we talked about in the campaign, and the sort of things
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Farmer Confidence is at an all time low in our July confidence survey. Whoever forms Government in October needs a plan to return confidence to farming and grow the economy out of the current crisis.
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Feds is calling for a Commerce Commission Inquiry into rural banking to look at the margins banks are making on farming and the way the controversial & anti-competitive Net Zero Banking Alliance is now being applied to farming.
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Thinking of our mates in Tairāwhiti who are once again dealing with torrential rain, flooding, and a local state of emergency.
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After 18 years of tireless advocacy for farmers since he 1st joined the Manawatu Exec & 3 years as National President, Andrew Hoggard stepped down as Feds President yesterday
Feds want to acknowledge the huge contribution he has made to Feds, the wider ag sector, and New Zealand
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Much of the poor farming regulations are a case of centralisation.
Rather than allowing communities to manage trade-offs, the rules and direction have been set from Wellington.
It may sound counter-intuitive after some of this week’s news, but it’s time to restore regional leadership….. along with clear accountability. My thoughts in the Weekend Herald. Steven Joyce: Centralisation isn’t working, time to trust the regions
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With the state of our rural roads at the moment, this one hits a little too close to home! 🙈
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How long will NZ Governments allow agri-industry to undermine climate action?
Predatory delay on climate action by
@Fonterra
,
@DairyNZ
and
@FedFarmers
via
@RusselNorman
#nzpol
#ClimateAction
#ClimateCrisis
#predatorydelay
#ClimateCrisis
#climatechange
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Sad to see
@NZGreens
MP Steve Abel spreading misinformation like this.
Bowel Cancer NZ has felt the need to respond to the misinformation that is being spread by
@GreenpeaceNZ
here:
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Great to see NZs scientists calling out
@GreenpeaceNZ
misinformation. Thanks Andre.
@RusselNorman
Kia Ora Russel. Interesting chart. Have you ahd the chance to check the methodology used? The link is below, and you will be fascinated by what is highlighted in the text
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Turns out we're better than the Irish at rugby and dairy farming...
@AllBlacks
@DairyIreland
@IRFURugby
@DairyNZ
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Nick thinks we all need to be vegan. But is a world without meat really worth living in though?
No surprise.
Comprehensive study of the food carbon footprint confirms it.
“The average carbon footprint of plant-based foods amounts to only 10.7% of animal-based foods”
Beef and dairy is even worse.
That’s why we must change food production system.
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NZ is ‘years ahead’ in meeting consumers’ sustainability standards,
@sainsburys
has told
@silverfernfarms
Farmers don't need to be worried about environmental footprinting, in fact, it can help give us a competitive advantage as the world's lowest footprint farmers.
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Thanks
@deanrabbidge
for sharing this video showing the damage done by pigs on his farm.
If you have examples of damage done by deer, pigs, goats & wallabies, please share. We will have more to say on this soon alongside
@Forest_and_Bird
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Interesting. Lab grown meat faces major barriers in ever being more carbon efficient than the most efficient natural beef systems (like NZ).
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Congratulations to former Northland Federated Farmers Vice President Grant McCallum who was recently elected as Northland's Electorate MP. 💚🖤
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2/3 of primary production land now have wild populations such as deer, pigs, goats & wallabies browsing. This is a headache for farmers, reducing production, endangering stock & risking disease.
We are calling on the next govt to make sure spending is better tangered to sort out
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The damage on Chris Allen’s farm is extensive – but he’s still able to make a cup of tea for a visitor
@bushypark8
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We are interested in documenting some of the stories we are hearing on large pests out of control on farms. Toby Williams has shared the attached video of deer from Gisborne.
Do you have photos or video of wallabies, deer, goats and pigs you could share? Even wilding pines.
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Very interesting research. One to watch as it is further discussed and tested by other researchers.
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Nick, this map includes many areas of National Park or Conservation Park - "Too many cows" may miss the point here mate that the National Bottom Lines aren't even achievable in areas with predominantly natural land cover.
The report covers this on page 98 (don't think ya read
Wow.
This map in the new report commissioned by Our Land And Water shows in the coloured areas, at least 1 contaminant (eg nitrogen) must be reduced by AT LEAST 30% under the new freshwater regulations.
In many areas, that's impossible without land-use change.
#TooManyCows
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🤔🤔🤔
Paris Agreement Article 2:
This Agreement.... aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change... low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production"
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If the new Government is serious about restoring farmer confidence, it will need to hit the ground running in its first 100 days – and that needs to start with listening, writes
@goaheadfarms
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"New Zealand farmers are in a better position to be able to identify the combination required than anybody in the central city. Allowing them to be innovative to achieve the required outcomes will bring back a sense of worth." Writes Jacqueline Rowarth.
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Congratulations to former Federated Farmers Otago President Mark Patterson who has been elected to Parliament over the weekend! 💚 🖤
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In case you missed it, Research First recently found that Kiwis overwhelmingly trust farmers to be taking proper care of their animals.
While farmers may not always see it, it's important to know that the vast majority of Kiwis do have your back!
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When you’ve been away from home for a few nights, it’s always best not to walk through the door empty-handed!
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The Government’s proposed RMA replacement is fatally flawed & needs to be immediately withdrawn and started from scratch, says Federated Farmers spokesperson for RMA reform Mark Hooper.
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For the entire Canterbury region, a decrease in nitrogen loss of 5.7% a year for the six years from 2016–17 to 2021–22 has been calculated.
Many say we should let existing policies bed in before rushing through a further 16 new plans under the NPS FM.
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“There’s nothing in science that tells us how much our contribution to a global problem should be,” Reisinger says. “The question is only how low can we go without breaking our rural communities, without breaking our economy, without breaking our collective willingness to
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The farmer owned co-op
@BallanceNZ
is trying to build wind turbines near its South Taranaki plant.
Instead of applauding,
@GreenpeaceNZ
is appealing the resource consent in the Wellington Court of Appeal (trying to stop the build).
You couldn't make this up 🤦♀️🤦
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NZTA regulations that require truck drivers to take 30-minute breaks every 5.5 hours of driving are putting animals at risk, two Southland truck drivers say.
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Great win to have National commit to repealing the atrocious RMA 2.0.
The Government needs to withdraw this legislation and start again. It’s a nightmare for farmers.
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REMINDER: Last year Federated Farmers scientifically polled 1,000 Kiwis & confirmed NZ does not support a levy on agricultural GHG.
Kiwis don't want to see 20% of sheep & beef production disappear.
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“Great. Now I’m bogged down in mud AND impractical regulation.” 🤣🤣
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Tradionally urea is made from feedstock of natural gas or coal. Without urea it is estimated global food production would halve.
Ballance is trying to pilot a system that would make urea from wind 💨💨💨🍃
Why would
@GreenpeaceNZ
block this??? 🤦♂️🙈
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Wishing everyone a happy World Milk Day and a great start to the new dairy season! 😀
Today's lets raise a glass to our world leading farmers. 🥛 🥛 🥛
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@nickofnz
Reminder that Greenpeace seems to think it knows more about colon cancer than WHO, Ministry of Health & Bowel Cancer NZ.
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The Paris Agreement is clear: The aim of low greenhouse gas development is to occur "In a manner that does not threaten Food Production."
Reducing emissions by cutting livestock production is not a positive step forward.
#COP28
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Farmers werent looking for a handout in the Budget, but simply requesting that the Government stop weighing us down with impractical, unpragmatic, and unfair regulations that are heaping on costs and tying us up in red tape, says
@yolofarmernz
here:
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What do you love most about this ball photo - the dress, the mullet, or the tractor ride to the ball!
Share a photo of peak rural NZ!
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NZ is currently the only country in the world to allow full offsetting with forestry in a capped ETS.
Kiwis view this as wrong.
Time to fix the ETS.
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Five former
@FedFarmers
leaders have been elected to Parliament this term. What are their priorities for restoring rural confidence, and how has their time in Federated Farmers set them up for the job in politics?
@FarmersWeeklyNZ
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Congratulations to Jo Luxton who was re-elected to Parliament this week. Jo’s been a great friend to Feds over the years and our board really enjoyed catching up with her in Wellington yesterday.
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'Emissions leakage' in a graph. NZ dairy/red meat production is already more emissions efficient than the global average, so when we produce less because of the Zero Carbon Bill’s emissions targets, other less efficient countries will supply the market = higher global emissions.
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Good interview with the incoming Agriculture, Forestry and Trade Minister Todd McClay. Priorities before Christmas are halting the extreme regional council freshwater plans that are coming in response to David Parkers 2020 rules and a trade mission to India.
LISTEN | Andy is joined by newly appointed Agricultural Minister Todd McClay from the
@NZNationalParty
to discuss the future of the Ag sector.
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