Feds support live animal exports
Federated Farmers have reiterated their support for the coalition Government to abolish the present ban on the live export of animals.
Experienced trade negotiator Charles Finny believes reports relating to a free trade agreement with the UK are positive.
Finny says full credit should go to Agriculture and Trade Minister Damien O'Connor for this development.
"He has pretty much secured a really good deal with the UK off the back of what Australia has secured. As long as New Zealand can deliver a really good outcome on services and investment, then I think we are there."
Finny says the UK is looking like it could be a very exciting market for NZ companies that want to reinvest in that market. But he's not sure it is going to be as dominant as it was in the past.
He would like to see a really good deal with the EU as well. Finny doesn't want companies to focus entirely on the UK and forget about the EU. However, he concedes that the EU is "a longer term burn". That aside, he believes NZ should be trying very hard to get a deal done this year.
"What will be interesting is the quality of that deal compared with the UK deal, which - if it happens - will be very good for the NZ ag sector."
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says the relationship between New Zealand and the US will remain strong and enduring irrespective of changing administrations.
More than 200 people turned out on Thursday, November 21 to see what progress has been made on one of NZ's biggest and most comprehensive agriculture research programmes on regenerative agriculture.
The a2 Milk Company (a2MC) says securing more China label registrations and developing its own nutritional manufacturing capability are high on its agenda.
Stellar speakers, top-notch trade sites, innovation, technology and connections are all on offer at the 2025 East Coast Farming Expo being once again hosted in Wairoa in February.
As a guest of the Italian Trade Association, Rural News Group Machinery Editor Mark Daniel took the opportunity to make an early November dash to Bologna to the 46th EIMA exhibition.
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