NZ red meat sector raises alarm on forestry sales

Beef and Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) has called for action to address the amount of productive sheep and beef farmland being lost to forestry, particularly for carbon farming

Alex Black
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NZ red meat sector raises alarm on forestry sales

A report by Orme and Associates, commissioned by B+LNZ, found that since its last report in August 2023 – which covered the period 2017 to the end of 2022 – sales for 51,291 hectares of sheep and beef...

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