{"id":40658,"date":"2020-08-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.farmersweekly.co.nz\/water-rules-unworkable\/"},"modified":"2020-08-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T12:00:00","slug":"water-rules-unworkable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.farmersweekly.co.nz\/news\/water-rules-unworkable\/","title":{"rendered":"Water rules \u2018unworkable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/448501006\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Southland Federated Farmers president Geoffrey Young has upped the pressure on the Government, advising members not to seek resource consent if they are unable to meet the new grazing regulations.<\/p>\n<p>Southern farmers are angered at the requirement to resow winter crop paddocks by November 1, a month later than the rest of NZ, the extent of pugging permitted on paddocks and limits on winter grazing paddocks with a mean slope exceeding 10 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>These provisions are included in the suite of essential freshwater measures regulations released in May.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Southland chair Nicol Horrell has some sympathy and is seeking to defuse tension by arranging a meeting with farmers, the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) and the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) to discuss concerns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He says Young\u2019s boycott call reflects frustration with the rigidity and impracticality of the new regulations for southern farmers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be helpful to get everyone in a room and work through the issues which may require having to go to Wellington to talk to ministers,\u201d Horrell said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all want improved water quality, but we do need a bit of flexibility in the southern South Island.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is too prescriptive. We are not able to add a regional favour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Young welcomed the council initiative but stood by his boycott call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEssentially, we are advising farmers to refrain from applying for resource consent for wintering,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is unworkable, a waste of money and a waste of resources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe regional council doesn\u2019t have the resources to process the 2000 to 3000 consents required in Southland because everyone who winters on crop will breach at least one of those three rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He wants winter grazing conditions to be included in farm environment plans rather than requiring resource consent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe if Southland farmers have to apply for resource consent for winter grazing it could cost $6-$8 million and that is money not being spent on their farms or the environment,\u201d Young said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should be about outcomes not regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Young says the policy shows the Government did not consider farmer submissions during consultation as they do not reflect the later growing season in the south, wet ground conditions in spring which can delay the resowing of cropped paddocks, and the consequences on stock numbers of the slope provisions.<\/p>\n<p>He notes Environment Southland has commended farmers for their winter grazing practices this year.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Minister David Parker says Young\u2019s boycott call is irresponsible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one is above the law,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe intensive winter grazing regulations reflect very closely the consultation document from September 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe regulated slope, size and pugging thresholds were options outlined in the consultation document.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He says the regulations are to ensure intensive winter grazing does not pollute rivers and estuaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Government is determined to improve and protect our waterways. Mr Young in Southland should play his part,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Federated Farmers president Andrew Hoggard shared the concerns of southern farmers saying blanket regulations did not account for regional differences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it\u2019s stupid law and ain\u2019t going to work, then we should keep saying it is stupid law and ain\u2019t going to work,\u201d Hoggard said.<\/p>\n<p><span>Green Party MP Eugenie Sage accused farmers on social media of attacking law they had been consulted on, but Hoggard says farmers were within their rights to criticise law if it is unworkable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Otago Regional Council chair Andrew Noone has heard similar complaints from Otago farmers and his council is looking to find a solution.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers have told him low slope maps provided by MfE to assist management of intensive grazing and stock exclusion, contain major anomalies.<\/p>\n<p>Otago Federated Farmers president Simon Davies says he understood Young\u2019s approach and 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