Displaying items by tag: JANE SMITH

Farmers round the country are calling on the Government to rein in councils that are trying to push through district plans and other planning processes despite reforms coming to the Resource Management Act (RMA).

OPINION: This old mutt has a lot of time for outspoken North Otago farmer and stud breeder Jane Smith.

North Otago farmer Jane Smith is questioning the modus operandi of AgriZeroNZ - the industry and government partnership working to find a solution to reducing farm methane emissions.

North Otago farmer Jane Smith says He Waka Eke Noa must be scrapped and Beef + Lamb NZ needs to start again with fact this time, not fiction.

With the B+LNZ annual meeting documentation currently hitting farmer's mailboxes, claims are being made that with the unprecedented number of farmer-proposed remits the organisation has become disconnected from its grassroots levy payers. David Anderson reports.

OPINION: Farmer morale is at a low – unseen since the dark days of the 1980s.

With the final He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) proposal on farm emissions expected to be presented to the Government in early June, the farming sector is at a "critical crossroads".

North Otago farmer Jane Smith says she remains concerned that levy organisations appear to have little appetite for gaining full and transparent farmer mandates before taking their advocacy positions.

Environmentalist and North Otago farmer Jane Smith says her alliance with Groundswell NZ and the Rural Advocacy Network during a recent South Island tour is not some type of underground gangster movement.

Concerns raised about the serious conflict of interest of a key Ministry for the Environment (MfE) staffer involved in the controversial freshwater reforms has led the ministry to implement a new system to mitigate future issues.