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Open Letter To Government
Friday, 31 March 2023, 3:04 pm | Primary Land Users Group
We would like to see a temporary by-pass of the major slip on State Highway 25A built to alleviate the concerns of the residents of the Eastern Side of Coromandel. Cyclone Gabrielle inflicted substantial damage to roading on the Coromandel Peninsula. ... More >>
PLUG Contends That Taxing Agriculture Production Is Really Dumb
Friday, 15 April 2022, 6:35 pm | Primary Land Users Group
The Primary Land Use Group (PLUG) has been in existence for about 5 years. The Group came about as the Rural Sector became concerned about the Waikato Regional Council Plan Change (PC1) That bureaucratic planning process burned through more than $35 ... More >>
It’s Great To See That Koi Carp Are Finally On The Department Of Conservation's Most-wanted List
Sunday, 10 April 2022, 1:06 pm | Primary Land Users Group
It was announced recently in the Waikato Herald that a multi-agency partnership will see new methods and research approaches trialled for the control of the pest fish koi carp in Waikato waterways. Koi are an introduced noxious pest that breed ... More >>
The Current Need For Coal
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 11:32 am | Primary Land Users Group
There are many people in New Zealand proposing a move to a much greener economy and they all seem to believe that a move to alternative forms of energy such as wind and solar electricity are the future for our country with the resultant moves away ... More >>
Lights Out
Wednesday, 20 October 2021, 7:45 pm | Primary Land Users Group
The government has spoken about the use of major infrastructure projects as a means of kick-starting our economy and all infrastructure projects start with an increased demand for supply infrastructure. There are many people in New Zealand that are proposing ... More >>
Aftermath Of Flooding In Canterbury
Friday, 4 June 2021, 1:57 pm | Primary Land Users Group
The Government has declared an adverse event for Canterbury, unlocking government support for farmers and flood recovery measures. Up to 400mm of rain has fallen on parts of the region causing widespread flooding and significant damage to property ... More >>
Agricultural Sustainability Into The Future
Thursday, 22 April 2021, 4:47 pm | Primary Land Users Group
Q: What does sustainability mean? A: Achieving economic, social, and environmental performance in today’s dynamic business climate requires a sustainability strategy that is executed with discipline year after year. This starts with farmers reducing ... More >>
Ridiculous Costings For Freshwater Compliance
Sunday, 11 October 2020, 2:24 pm | Primary Land Users Group
The Ministry for the Environment’s Action for Healthy Waterways report predicts that some councils will face higher costs than others, particularly Canterbury, Southland and Waikato. The predictions are that meeting new freshwater regulations will cost ... More >>
Tax & The Economy
Saturday, 12 September 2020, 4:14 pm | Primary Land Users Group
The government has spent in the vicinity of $54 billion dollars to keep New Zealand afloat, whether wisely or otherwise only time will tell. In household budget terms we have spent our savings and maxed out the credit card. The time has now come to ... More >>
Restart Of The Economy After Covid 19
Friday, 11 September 2020, 1:34 pm | Primary Land Users Group
Covid 19 is the proverbial “rainy day”. The government has spent in the vicinity of $54 billion dollars to keep New Zealand afloat, whether wisely or otherwise only time will tell. In household budget terms we have spent our savings and maxed out ... More >>
A Classic Example Of The Disconnect From Farming
Friday, 28 August 2020, 1:44 pm | Primary Land Users Group
The new “National Environmental Standards for Freshwater” which were introduced by the current government in August are to be amended. The Minister for Agriculture Damien O’Connor announced Wednesday that cabinet had agreed the winter grazing ... More >>
Accelerating Our Economic Potential
Thursday, 9 July 2020, 9:59 am | Primary Land Users Group
The Government plans to increase primary sector export earnings by $44 billion over the next decade with a goal of getting 10,000 more New Zealanders working in the sector over the next four years. Prime Minister Ardern said the sector, which has ... More >>
Legalising Marijuana- Environmental Negatives?
Monday, 6 July 2020, 8:39 am | Primary Land Users Group
There are many groups within NZ including the Green Party that are calling for the legalisation of marijuana for personal/medicinal use and my question for them is: - How can they reconcile that stand with the negative environmental effects from ... More >>
Watercare And The Waikato River
Thursday, 2 July 2020, 10:09 am | Primary Land Users Group
The Waikato River Authority are reported as wanting New Zealanders living in Auckland to pay for more water from the Waikato River and have suggested up to 10 cents a litre, or $20 million a day. Watercare currently charges Aucklanders 0.001594 cents ... More >>
Who Can Waste $80,000,000 And Not Have To Answer For That Wastage?
Tuesday, 9 June 2020, 5:53 pm | Primary Land Users Group
The answer is the Waikato Regional Council and the Waikato Regional ratepayers. Together they have spent approximately four years working on the development of Plan Change 1 and going through all of the processes up to the stage of receiving the ... More >>
Coronavirus Recovery & Politics
Monday, 20 April 2020, 7:42 am | Primary Land Users Group
We don’t value people correctly or in fact adequately. I was recently listening to an interview on television and it made me think that we are rapidly becoming a society that values wealth, intelligence and goods over the common personal values. ... More >>
Economic Recovery From Covid 19 Through Development Of Infrastructure
Friday, 17 April 2020, 9:21 am | Primary Land Users Group
Currently New Zealand is in the early stages of an economic crisis due to the advent of the Coronavirus and its effects through the level 4 Emergency lockdown provisions and others. The current coalition government is proposing taking direct action to ... More >>
Farming And Coronavirus
Friday, 20 March 2020, 8:41 am | Primary Land Users Group
Currently New Zealand is looking down the barrel of a massive health crisis and equally as bad economic crisis due to the advent of the Coronavirus. New Zealand farming has over the last couple of years under the current government has been berated, ... More >>
Paris Agreement on Climate Change - Threats to Food Security
Tuesday, 15 October 2019, 9:26 am | Primary Land Users Group
One of the important parameters of the agreement’s aims was to ensure there was no threat to food production from the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change. More >>
Economic Misdirection At it’s Finest
Friday, 11 October 2019, 2:07 pm | Primary Land Users Group
A report by the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER) has suggested that the government's proposed clean-up of waterways will not harm New Zealand's overall economy. More >>
