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Vote Red – meat!

Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) believes the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) will see huge swathes of productive farming land converted into trees for carbon farming.

People should be able to eat red meat and not feel guilty about it, according to Beef+Lamb NZ chief executive Sam McIvor.

People should be able to eat red meat and not feel guilty about it, according to Beef+Lamb NZ chief executive Sam McIvor.

The US meat market is becoming something of a nightmare for NZ meat exporters with situations changing – in some cases – on a daily basis.

Beef+Lamb NZ chief executive Sam McIvor says the COVID-19 pandemic will likely mean that his organisation will end up engaging with more people than it has done in the past.

The Zero Carbon Bill has just been passed into law, but not without significant misgivings from across the farming sector.

Dealing with agricultural emissions is very much on the radar of farmers, says Beef + Lamb NZ chief executive Sam McIvor.

Organisations representing New Zealand’s largest food and beverage exporters are calling on Britain and the European Union to work with NZ and honour existing WTO tariff rate quotas.

Despite two of the best years in history, sheep and beef farmers are not exactly happy.