Sam McIvor: Beef and Lamb NZ chief on joint letter to Ministers asking for more time on environmental policy changes

Concerns the Government are rolling on through with environmental policy changes without any care that farmers are struggling to keep up.On June 9 we will get the draft of the Indigenous Biodiversity National Policy statement - this is all to do with the SNAs.This is while farmers are also trying to deal with policy changes on water, climate, conservation and the resource management act.So a joint letter from Beef and Lamb NZ, Federated Farmers and the Deer industry was sent to James Shaw, Damien O’Connor and David Parker asking for more time for consultation and analysis as well as relaying their concerns.Beef and Lamb NZ chief executive Sam McIvor joined Mike Hosking.LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.