Jamie Mackay: The Country host on Beef and Lamb NZ urging the Government to close carbon farming loopholes

Beef + Lamb New Zealand is urging the Government to close farming loopholes before 'more damage is done' to the sector.

The organisation want loopholes in the guidance around limits on carbon forestry closed - as concerning news of further whole-farm sales emerges.

The Country's Jamie Mackay explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jamie mckaye, Host of the Countries with me now, Jamie, Hello,
good okay, So what's this fight against the banking wokery
that's going on? How's it continuing?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, you know, the best ideas are often borrowed ideas
from other people. I was reading a piece in the
Rural News, one of our leading rural publications in this country,
from their acervic sort of or even vitriolic cartoon character
the Hound. Now this was made up by the late
David Anderson, one of the leading rural journals in this country,

(00:30):
incidentally the brother of Miles Anderson, the national MP for
White Taki. But the Hound wrote in the Rural News,
and this is good and it follows on from a
chat I had earlier in the week with Mark Cameron.
The good fight against banking wokery continues with the draft
bell to scrap the red tape forcing banks and financial
institutions to make climate related disclosures. Then the Hound went

(00:53):
on to quote Mark Cameron, who's refreshingly down to earth,
the act MP from Northland. He said farmers are already
seeing discrimination creeping into interstrates based on perceived emissions. They
fair they'll be the next to be debanked, not because
of any financial risk, but because they don't fit the
agenda of the suit and ty Bigwicks. We've already seen

(01:13):
it happening to essential industries like mining and service stations.
So Mark Cameron leading the charge for Act, joining Winston
and Shane's war on wokery with the banks, and I
say all power to them.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
You totally couldn't agree more. Now, what are these loopholes
around the carbon farming and the planting.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well beef and lamb New Zealand have urged the government
to close some of these carbon farming loopholes. They came out,
Oh well that they came out or the government came
out on the fourth of December last year. But Chair
Kate Ackland is quite rightly saying when these limits were
announced the peg in the sand was put in the
ground on the fourth of December last year. The government

(01:53):
would ensure that unless there was a clear intent for
conversion before that date, you couldn't do it. But people
are driving truck and trailer units through these loopholes at
the moment. What the MPI should I say, came out
with guidance on what constitutes intent. But Kate Ackland, saying
these guidelines are deeply flawed. She says the two key

(02:17):
flaws in the guidance relate to accepting receipts for ordering
seedlings and accepting third party assessments of farmland for a forestation,
and there are ways you can get around those, and
she quite rightly says, Look, anyone can buy some seedlings.
It's not uncommon to purchase them and worry about where
they'll be planted later. In such cases, there is no

(02:38):
intent to enter any particular parcel of land into the ETS,
so people are still getting are still dodging this one.
Heather will come in to force the legislation in October
of this year, but some people, including Federated farmers, are saying,
why not do a pay equity rush it through the
house type legislation. They're not quite as keen on that
one as they are on the pay equity and.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Too right, Thank you very much, Jemmy look after yourself.
It's Jemmy MacKaye, host of the Country.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
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