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Why food and fibre has a strong future
Barbara Kuriger 
August 31, 2022
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We all eat and that gives everyone a role to play in our food chain. While there are a series of environmental issues to solve, farmers and growers have made good progress over the years.
Welfare that works warranted
Barbara Kuriger August 22, 2022
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For practical people like me, numbers are comforting.
They can confirm either a problem, or a solution, depending on the context being applied.
Starting our pasture to plate story
Barbara Kuriger August 16, 2022
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Like many of you, I’m so over the uninformed knockers of primary industries.
People who are swayed by a headline, a social media post or a slick advertising campaign, without any in-depth knowledge of why sectors within it, operate the way they do.
Science the key to our decisions
Barbara Kuriger August 10, 2022
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“A set of principles shapes National’s primary sector decision-making,” says agriculture spokesperson Barbara Kuriger.
Fresh from last weekend’s annual conference, she says: “The sector is currently worth $52 billion to New Zealand and growing. It underpins our economy.
Farmers, there’s plenty to celebrate
Barbara Kuriger August 03, 2022
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“Despite Monday’s Federated Farmers Confidence Survey results, there are many positives for the agricultural and horticultural sectors right now,” says National’s Agriculture Spokesperson Barbara Kuriger.
Barbara's Beat No. 14
Barbara Kuriger August 01, 2022
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FRONT FOOTING THE THREAT
The possibility Foot and Mouth Disease could reach New Zealand looms as this newsletter goes together.
FMD is the highly contagious disease that affects cattle, sheep, goats and pigs. The only way to eradicate it is to destroy any affected animals.
If agencies charged with our biosecurity put one foot wrong, our agricultural sector would be decimated. So there can be no slip ups.
Foot and Mouth would devastate New Zealand
Barbara Kuriger July 26, 2022
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There can be no slip-ups in our actions to keep out Foot and Mouth Disease, which would have catastrophic impacts on the country, National’s Agriculture spokesperson Barbara Kuriger says.
Seeing red
Barbara Kuriger July 25, 2022
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Never has an industry been more targeted by a government than New Zealand’s primary sector right now.
The spotlight, within that target for the past five years, falling firmly on agriculture.
This term, Labour no longer needs the blessing of the Greens to enact their ideas.
Nor are they beholden to any other party to pass laws, so they’ve been busy.
ED wait times soaring
Barbara Kuriger July 18, 2022
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Emergency Department wait times are soaring across Taranaki and the Waikato region, with more than one in four people waiting at least six hours for treatment, National’s MP for Taranaki-King Country Barbara Kuriger says
We can all do our bit
Barbara Kuriger July 11, 2022
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An estimated 40% of food produced globally each year is wasted — totalling 2.5 billion tonnes.
New Zealand households account for more than 157,000 tonnes of it.