Govt releases ag emissions proposal
The Government has released a proposal to reduce agriculture emissions for consultation which includes farmers paying a core levy from 2025.
He is one of four producer board members, replacing Tim Aitken, Hawkes Bay.
Jermy is a former board chair, standing down in 2007. Before that he was chair of the New Zealand Deer Farmers’ Association.
NZDFA selection and appointments panel chair David Stevens said the panel had interviewed three skilled and talented candidates and the decision process was extremely challenging.
The unsuccessful candidates were Tim Aitken, who stood for re-election and Otago-based businessman and deer farmer Grant Cochrane.
Jermy’s farm, Stanfield’s European Red Deer Stud, is in Darfield, Canterbury.
