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Speaker 1: I've been reflecting this field Day's week on how much

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Speaker 1: the dial has shifted on farming and emissions in this country.

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Speaker 1: We had Chris Hopkins on the Herald Now program on

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Speaker 1: Tuesday admitting that essentially they don't currently have a policy

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Speaker 1: on putting agriculture into the ets. It was a signature

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Speaker 1: policy platform under the Adourn government. We had to do it.

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Speaker 1: They told us it was a moral not to. Farmers

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Speaker 1: had to pay a higher price, and who cares if

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Speaker 1: its cotwo or is methane or whatever emissions or emissions.

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Speaker 1: Labour is now open to ditching that all together and

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Speaker 1: softening its tone on farmers. This is happening for two reasons. One,

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Speaker 1: people are alive to the fact that without our strong

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Speaker 1: agricultural export prices, and we're looking at this after six

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Speaker 1: this morning, our regions would feel a lot more like

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Speaker 1: our main centers right now, economically depressed and limping along

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Speaker 1: like the Art Tetty. Actually selling a bunch of stuff

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Speaker 1: we already know how to do well is exactly what

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Speaker 1: a small trading nation like ours should be doing. Number Two,

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Speaker 1: the government has successfully, i think changed the narrative on emissions,

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Speaker 1: basically through repetition. Our farmers are the most efficient in

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Speaker 1: the world. The world demands meat and dairy. They like

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Speaker 1: eating and drinking our stuff. If we cut back and

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Speaker 1: burn the farmers bite the hand that feeds our regional economies.

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Speaker 1: Someone else steps in to make that global demand and

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Speaker 1: you guessed it. Higher emitting meat and dairy products are

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Speaker 1: sold to the world. So, for reasons of basic economics

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Speaker 1: and political reality, the dials been shifted on farming and

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Speaker 1: emissions and labors. Well, a little late to the party,

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Speaker 1: but at least acknowledging the landscape has well and truly changed.

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