Federated Farmers, Beef and Lamb NZ and Groundswell all have major concerns about the new RMA legislation. That often means higher food prices for all of us.

Federated Farmers, Beef and Lamb NZ and Groundswell all have major concerns about the new RMA legislation, suggesting that for farms in NZ some of the new RMA rules are worse than the last government’s rules which are being replaced.

All have submitted with their concerns about the effect of these rules making it harder and more costly to run farms in NZ. And they mention the overreach of Governments wanting to gather so much information from individual farms.

Comments are also made that the environmental programmes which are getting real results in NZ are the grassroots groups, on the land, across the country, who are taking positive environmental action and getting results. Groups of people, hands on, doing things.

They comment that government legislation does not deliver actions on the ground, just words.

All this means the cost of your food just gets more expensive. It also means for areas like New Plymouth, who have such a large portion of income for Taranaki coming from farming, the negative flow on affect for the rural community affects all of us in town.

Below is a link to the Groundswell submission with more info about Land Grab categories which still remain in the new legislation, and farm plan regulations which capture significant information about every farm, adding more costs, rather than making it easier to farm as promised.

Whichever government is in place in NZ it appears they feel a need to have a one size fits all set of rules for the country that everyone must work to, and they feel a need to control private property and how it can be used.

If you don't like that approach, if nothing else, you may like to put comments along those lines in a submission of your own. The link is here for submissions to the government:

https://www3.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/make-a-submission/document/54SCENV_SCF_BA467863-D6B0-4968-1027-08DE369D9192/planning-bill-and-natural-environment-bill

A link to the Groundswell submission:
https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/628c1a442ab3910ecd267fd5/698ad74cfd75a02d6fb2ffc6_Submission%20-%20Planning%20and%20Natural%20Environment%20Bills.pdf