It has resulted in the usual cries to never from the usual suspects based on emotion not sense.
The case for the government owning any entity that competes with private enterprise is and Landcorp is a good example of one which performs poorly.
Even in good years its return on its assets is poor and too often it has bad years when it doesn’t make any profit at all.
Land sales would have to be carefully managed and done over time and it could start the process by replacing all of the managers on its dairy farms with sharemilkers.
Apropos of matters agricultural, tenure review of pastoral leases should be restarted and continue until the state is divested of all the land.
It should also be done in a much less expensive way than in the past. Instead of the government buying sensitive land to increase the already over-burdened Department of Conservation (DOC) estate, it should be retained by the farmers under QEII covenants.
Pastoral leaseholders already have almost all the rights of those who own freehold land, the public has nothing to lose from this and taxpayers have a lot to gain by the state divesting itself of leases and the expense that goes with administering them.
Ele Ludemann is a North Otago farmer and journalist, who blogs HERE - where this article was sourced.
Land sales would have to be carefully managed and done over time and it could start the process by replacing all of the managers on its dairy farms with sharemilkers.
Apropos of matters agricultural, tenure review of pastoral leases should be restarted and continue until the state is divested of all the land.
It should also be done in a much less expensive way than in the past. Instead of the government buying sensitive land to increase the already over-burdened Department of Conservation (DOC) estate, it should be retained by the farmers under QEII covenants.
Pastoral leaseholders already have almost all the rights of those who own freehold land, the public has nothing to lose from this and taxpayers have a lot to gain by the state divesting itself of leases and the expense that goes with administering them.
Ele Ludemann is a North Otago farmer and journalist, who blogs HERE - where this article was sourced.
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The examples make so much commercial sense, which is why the over priced bureaucrats will do everything possible to block such moves
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