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… find tips, tricks, advice, other farmers’ experience and research findings that might make a difference for you.   B+LNZ provide ‘Growing Great Lambs’ workshops, keep an eye out for one in your area or let your local B+LNZ Extension Manager know you’d like to attend one.   … Great lambs …

… This story sets out what was proposed, how we informed farmers and helped them have their say through a joint B+LNZ/Federated Farmers/Deer Industry New Zealand survey, and our advice to famers on making their own consultation … the low slope map for stock exclusion You can find more information on the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) website . B+LNZ’s consultation submission B+LNZ provided a consultation submission on behalf of our farmers. We worked with …

… Find out more about factors that can affect pricing in our sector. B+LNZ monitors activity and trends to help our sector forecast future price activity, mitigate risk and identify …

… B+LNZ is representing sheep and beef farmers’ interests in the Resource Management Act (RMA) reforms process. … The … select committee process. Because what was released was so detailed and complex, and the submission period was short, B+LNZ made a submission on behalf of sheep and beef farmers. While we support the need for reforming the RMA we oppose the …

AWDT is a critical partner to New Zealand's primary industries, its programmes developing the skills, capability and confidence of women. … The Agri-Women's Development Trust (AWDT) runs leadership programmes that aim to increase the pool of women with the skills and capability to govern and lead agricultural organisations. … Women play key roles in New Zealand farming partnerships and bring a wide range of skills to decision-making situations – but they hold just 6% of governance roles in the …

… FITT was a B+LNZ initiative to improve farm profitability. It offered funding for groups of sheep and cattle farmers to trial new …

… processes and we’re seeing some really worrying rules come out with significant implications for farmers.   What B+LNZ is doing   We commissioned an independent report by environmental consultants Torlesse Environmental Ltd. This report … measure, while urgent work is undertaken on the replacement of the NPS-FM.   The importance of a good evidence base  B+LNZ uses research and evidence to underpin our advocacy, along with farmer input. We also rely on the B+LNZ Sheep and …

… the organisation’s vision of ‘Profitable farmers, thriving farming communities, valued by all New Zealanders’. … B+LNZ's recently refreshed Farm Excellence Strategy will be used to inform the design of the organisation’s Farming … with farmers and farming groups including Farmer Councils, the Strategy puts structure and discipline within B+LNZ to determine the information and extension needs of sheep and beef farmers operating in an increasingly complex …

… ambitious to compensate for the rest of the world’s actions not being on track to keep warming below 1.5 degrees.    B+LNZ’s response   B+LNZ provided a submission on behalf of farmers to highlight the inequity of the approach the Commission took. Our …