Wednesday, 22 April 2026 12:55

Bouquets

Written by  The Hound

OPINION: Bouquets this week from the old mutt for Fed Farmers and Groundswell for continuing to resist the proposed Gore District plan and its intention to apply costly "cultural values" across the district and a raft of land classifications that are unworkable and counterproductive.

As Groundswell notes, when they first objected to the new plan, it was going to place the whole Gore District under the 'Sites and Areas of Significance to Māori' classification.

"All they've done since is change the name to Cultural Values."

The ones who benefit from this change and who are pushing for it rely on everyone being scared of being labelled 'racist' for daring to challenge the workability of such proposals, so kudos to these advocacy groups for trying to hold the line at Gore, before it spreads to other districts.

More like this

Is the Coalition Government Really Backing Farmers?

OPINION: Many sheep and beef farmers will be worse off under the new environment legislation than they were under the Resource Management Act (RMA), claims Beef+Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) in an email to levy payers.

Featured

National

Machinery & Products

Mark Dillon Does It Again!

Southland crop farmer Mark Dillon took out his fifth New Zealand conventional ploughing title at the NZ Ploughing Championships held…

Chinese Tractors Eye Western Europe

Having caused quite a stir at last year’s Agritechnica, Chinese manufacturer Zoomlion is reported to be conducting large-scale field trials…

» Latest Print Issues Online

The Hound

Bouquets

OPINION: Bouquets this week from the old mutt for Fed Farmers and Groundswell for continuing to resist the proposed Gore…

Waffle Man

OPINION: In what world does old mate Christopher Luxon live?

» Connect with Rural News

» eNewsletter

Subscribe to our weekly newsletter