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The Government has announced it will help develop improved tools to manage and estimate on-farm nutrient loss after an independent Science Advisory Panel identified shortcomings with the Overseer software.

The first draft of the proposed law that will replace the controversial Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) was released by the Government last week.

OPINION: Finally the Government has made a sensible move to temporarily pause the implementation of the impractical rules that accompany its proposed regulations on winter grazing.

Farmers are welcoming the Government’s decision to delay intensive winter grazing (IWG) rules until May next year.

It seems like there are few tears being shed around the country about the news that the RMA is to be scrapped and replaced by three new separate Acts.

The Government says it is delivering on its promise to reform the resource management system based on the review carried out last year.

Your canine crusader has been concerned for some time about the complete lack of fight put up by the so-called farmer-representative bodies on a number of controversial issues – including water reforms.

A package of 19 projects will help clean up and protect waterways and create local jobs, Environment Minister David Parker announced Saturday.

OPINION: The dust from the 2020 general election has settled and Labour has been given the mandate to govern New Zealand for the next three years.

Southland Federated Farmers vice president Bernadette Hunt says she finds it “interesting” that Environment Minister David Parker continues to downplay the feedback on the Government’s freshwater regulations.