Displaying items by tag: Barbara Kuriger

OPINION: The consultation period for the Government’s emissions pricing plan for agriculture is closing as I write this.

National’s agriculture, biosecurity and food safety spokesperson Barbara Kuriger has resigned from her portfolios.

National claims that the Government is about to pile up to $100 million of "unnecessary" compliance costs onto farmers because its freshwater regulations are more than a year overdue. National's Agriculture spokesperson Barbara Kuriger had this to say.

National’s agriculture spokespeople Barbara Kuriger and Joseph Mooney have added their voices to the chorus of people asking the Government to delay winter grazing regulations.

OPINION: Like many of you, I’m so over the uninformed knockers of primary industries.

OPINION: An estimated 40% of food produced globally each year is wasted - totalling 2.5 billion tonnes.

OPINION: New Zealand is a trading station. We are respected by the world and the best at what we do.

More than 3,000 Kiwis have signed a petition calling for imported pork to be required to meet the same animal welfare standards as New Zealand pork.

OPINION: At a time when farmers should be celebrating higher red meat and dairy prices, they like other New Zealanders are feeling the pinch.

The National Party's new leader Chris Luxon seems to have placed a bigger emphasis on agriculture with his new shadow cabinet line-up.