Let's have a smarter debate around farming

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Tue, 25 Apr 2023

It’s great that the National party has put farming on the policy agenda, but all political parties need to think more deeply about how to treat this critical sector of our economy.Getting into a bidding war with the Act party over who will light the biggest regulatory bonfire is not actually going to help our exporters in the long term.That’s the clear implication of a recent report from the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) on the future of the country’s food sector, which highlighted the need to keep one step ahead of th...

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