Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford outlines a five-point election plan focused on reducing farming costs, streamlining environmental consenting, and empowering farmers with targeted permitted activities, while also highlighting broader financial literacy efforts through a
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Yeah, I mean, we are very aware around what what the general public are going through. I mean, I've got a family of three boys and I know what it costs to feed them uh and and the cost of food. And if we want to get the cost of food down, then we've got to we've got to take this cost out of farming because that's obviously where the food comes from. Let me give you one really quick example. Uh a farmer up in Auckland, he came to me and said, I've got four hectares here that I'm trying to grow some broccoli on. Uh, I've already spent twenty-five thousand thousand dollars just to renew a uh a water consent that's just just for the water to put on the broccoli, not for any other consent on the land. And and I'm not even complete yet. He said that's gonna add like fifty odd cents to every stalk of broccoli just for the water part of it before I've even started growing it, it's just for the water. And it's absolutely crazy. And and he still hasn't got the water. So we're we're just gonna get out of this and we've got to get the machine cranking.
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