Issues with winter grazing and fencing in the high country are top of the list of gripes being aired.
But today agriculture minister Damien O’Connor has announced some changes and signaled there might be more on the way.
The Government made clear throughout this process that there are farmers in some regions who will have to change the way they do things under these new regulations.
Just how much will change, and how quickly, still appears to be unclear.
Govt amends freshwater rules amid backlash
The Government has amended contentious new freshwater rules just three weeks after they were implemented and is hinting other changes will follow.
Farmers urged to study new water rules
Farm environment plans should make it easier to comply with new freshwater regulations but it will be some years before that happens, dairy farmers have been told.
RMPP Action Network programme extended
The Red Meat Profit Partnership (RMPP) Action Network programme has been extended until early next year.
Wagyu calves pricey, but worth it
Wagyu cattle are treated like first-class citizens with the best of everything on Rockburn farm and they are appropriately rewarding their farmers Evan and Clare Chapman for their preferential treatment.
Scales holds its course
Scales Corporation reported first-half results steady on the comparable period in 2019 despite an extraordinary six months when covid-19 impacted its apple picking and packing, plus its main selling season.
