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Beef+Lamb NZ chair Andrew Morrison says new Prime Minister Chris Hipkins should understand the huge amount of financial pressure that dry stock farmers are facing when he and his cabinet review what projects should be scrapped or revisited.

Within hours of Chris Hipkins being sworn in as the new Prime Minister, the red meat sector issued a series of demands it wants the country's politicians to address in forthcoming election campaign.

OPINION: Your canine crusader understands that late last month in Southland, Beef+Lamb NZ chair Andrew Morrison – on what was described as a thinly disguised re-electioneering round – held two separate invite-only meetings for farmers on agricultural emissions, with scientist David Frame in tow.

Apparently, the first meeting was for all the “troublemakers” who have challenged B+LNZ.

Then the second invite-only meeting was – as told to yours truly – “for the compliant farmer robots, who don’t ask questions of the messiah and his mothership”.

According to the Hound’s source, this would have worked out well for Morrison, until the ‘troublemakers’ meeting went an hour longer than planned and as they were walking out the more compliant farmers were walking in.

Awkward!

In its submission to the Government, Beef+Lamb NZ has rejected the Government’s proposed agricultural emissions pricing system.

Sheep and beef farmers are welcoming a Government announcement that sequestration will be part of an agricultural emissions pricing package.

OPINION: This old mutt notes that at the recent release of the Government's response to agricultural emissions, there was only the PM, Ag Minister, Climate Change Minister and local Labour MP - a non-descript, little man with a beard - fronting up to media.

On the back of growing criticism of its advocacy efficacy, Beef+Lamb NZ recently emailed farmer levypayers a list of its advocacy efforts.

The Government has released a proposal to reduce agriculture emissions for consultation which includes farmers paying a core levy from 2025.

The winners of the inaugural Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) Awards were announced at a gala dinner at the Napier War Memorial Centre last night.

OPINION: This old mutt wonders about the quality of directors currently serving on the board of Beef+Lamb NZ.