5 Sep 2018

Beef + Lamb NZ rejects 'marginal' description by Productivity Commission

From Morning Report, 8:45 am on 5 September 2018

Beef + Lamb New Zealand is pushing back against the Productivity Commission's description of sheep and beef farming as "marginal". The Commission says New Zealand needs to change the way it farms if it's to achieve a low carbon economy. But Beef + Lamb says the Commission's new report is wrong about the sector. Jeremy Baker is Beef + Lamb's chief insight officer. He talks to Susie Ferguson.