Federated Farmers has launched a new campaign titled ‘SOS: Save Our Sheep’, warning that New Zealand’s sheep industry is on the brink of collapse unless urgent action is taken.
Once a cornerstone of the national economy, the sheep sector has seen a dramatic decline, with the national flock dropping from over 70 million in 1982 to fewer than 25 million today — and continuing to shrink by nearly a million sheep annually.
The federation attributes much of this decline to the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), which it says incentivises landowners to convert farmland into pine plantations rather than raise livestock.
Since 2017, approximately 260,000 hectares of sheep and beef farmland have been lost to forestry.
Federated Farmers argues that New Zealand’s allowance of 100% carbon offsetting through forestry is unique globally and a policy failure that is devastating rural communities, eliminating jobs, and weakening the country’s food production infrastructure.
The group is calling on the Government to urgently review and reform the ETS, warning that without immediate change, the sheep industry — and the rural way of life it supports — may vanish entirely.
ETS is a fraud, theft and wealth transfer racket.
No good calling on the crime syndicate masquerading as our democratic government as they are the ones driving this agenda for the Empire of the City. No farmers, no food. Can’t eat pine trees.
True, unfortunately.
Spot on mate.
Bullshiticians working against the people should pay a price for their crimes or incompetence.
Their treason
Just another good reason to leave. When I visit China (my wife is Chinese) we spend time in her family’s rural village. You see this all over, little farm lets, growing their own vegetables and animals, chickens and pigs, living in the high country outside the villages.
The food tastes amazing. Everything is home grown and free range. The pork’s the best I’ve ever had and beats what we get here, by a country mile.
Suffice to say, if the world ended tomorrow these people would still have food to eat. They are not bound by the idiocy we are seeing here in NZ, where food deprivation is the future and GMO/ “eat ze burgs” the agenda being peddled, by the globalist scum.
Why don’t u eff off then to China?
Being parochial wont change the facts, little fella. Nor will throwing petty insults.
China is doing a better job than NZ. Simply a fact. Oh and they label GMO food, too. Not that you see much of it there.
I think you guys are all on the wrong train. Think of a totally corrupt Govt. being influenced with presents from the UN WHO WEF and China to totally crush NZ and Aust. When it all crashes and China takes over, NZ will be just a resource centre. Australia have to watch its Ps and Qs as well, like having Chinese warships circling the whole Australian continent and having a lame duck PM brushing it off as friendly exercises is just fantasy. Rememember the Wehrmacht’s ‘Friendly Military Exercises’ in Poland in 1939 ? cause our idiot Politcians dont. I have been labeled as a ‘Conspiracy Theorist of Misinformation’ but I was 100% right about Jabsindah and the ‘Covid’ Plandemic 5 years before it happened back in 2017. Nobody took any notice then and they are not taking any heed now.
You can bet your bottom dollar they’ve been “vaccinating” the animals with absolute poison for decades as well.
All going according to plan
If Fed farmers just came out and said climate change is fake, theyd get a lot of kiwis behind them
They are sheeple themselves by letting the corporates decide about farming.
ETS is bullshit
And we all know it
Another state induced psyopera
These pine plantations are destructive genetically modified weeds with weak wood and massive environmental destruction of bio-diversity which are as useful as a carbon sink as a sieve is as a bucket.
Agree 100%
The awakened in the world are calling out for natural fibre. Plastic, polyester and synthetics generally do not last the distance. Remember the good old wool jerseys which nanna knitted and would last indefinitely? The wooden hats? The wooden gloves? They would not shed microfibres or pill after a few washes. If nz is good for one thing it is the wool and sheep meats which they produce and thinking people especially those with children, who are not brain dead from advertising will always prefer the natural fibre; it’s a no brainer. Government departments which control the flow of funding would be well advised to look at what is actually ‘green’, ‘sustainable’ and ‘eco-friendly’ because world markets will be driven by the generation which longs for some reality.