This piece critiques government proposals to regulate farming through the NZ Taxonomy and ETS farm-to-forestry conversions, arguing that they are unworkable, economically damaging, and threaten rural livelihoods and food production.
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Oh, God, you know, you get all excited about that. Can I come back to the core issues, and they are still around, around some of the nitrate issues, some of the waterway issues that we're dealing with. Well, we will have to deal with. There's been some head in the sand. and stuff going on and I just talked at the Fairleigh show yesterday the Highland show there with some of the catchment management people there's some hot spots not quite sure what to do you know we have huge investment in dairy farming and I appreciate that farmers will go on in good faith invest in large amounts of money but there's some of these emerging issues that that something will have to be done about and it's a bit like the bobby calves ignored for years and years and years Now we realise we've got to get on and do it and the solutions aren't simple.
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simplifying rules for farmer autonomy
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