by Luci | Jun 15, 2023 | Default
New Zealand is officially in recession. Stats NZ has announced the .1% dip in the economy in the first three months of the year represented a second consecutive quarter of economic decline following a contraction of 0.7% in GDP in the last three months of 2022.
by Luci | Jun 14, 2023 | Default
The Emmissions Trading Scheme is a hot topic with farmers right now. National party has just announced it would stop agriculture being added to the ETS, and wants to push back any decision about pricing farming emissions until 2030. Mark asked their Agriculture...
by Luci | Jun 14, 2023 | Default
One of the first big announcements of the field days today is Prime Minister Chris Hipkins ruling out a tax on fertiliser. Hipkins says he doesn’t support a broad based tax that doesn’t provide the nuances that are inherent in He Waka eke Noa. He told the crowd at the...
by Luci | Jun 13, 2023 | Default
The proposal from National to stop emissions pricings for farmers for at least another five years suggesting instead an on-farm pricing plan for farmers by twenty-thirty. The plan has won plaudits from Federated Farmers, but scorn from the government, which accuses...
by Luci | Jun 13, 2023 | Default
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is to lead a delegation to China, the first since the Covid-19 pandemic began. But before that the agriculture sector will be the centrepiece as both PM Hipkins and National Party leader Christopher Luxon attend Fieldays with policy...
by Luci | Jun 13, 2023 | Default
Canterbury Regional Council is to build a 48-kilometre-long pest fence as part of the war on wallabies. Wallabies have spread outside the containment zone and Biosecurity NZ estimates they could cover a third of the country by 2050 if no action is taken. The council’s...
