Farm emission plan announced, expect to pay more for your food...

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just imagine if other countries included food production in their emission tally like virtue signalling aotearooooarrr does

Then we might actually start making positive progress in terms of climate change mitigation. Can't let the almighty dollar/euro/pound/yen/yuan get in the way of that though can we?

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Have to agree with hunni, it is well overdue...

and I disagree with it necessarily inflating grocery prices, as we have seen recently supply and demand will always set the price.  Farmers mostly have zero input in what they get paid for their produce...  The market decides that.

Back 20 years or so when I was orcharding the industry journals were reporting that the return to growers was in the region of 10% of the supermarket prices for their produce. I'll bet little has changed in that regard and overall will have increased mainly as a result of (non-imported) labour rates, extreme climatic events and transportation (fuel) costs, all of which the farmer has very little control over, though the climate issue is one they are being forced to address by this governmental plan.

The centralisation of supermarket warehousing has a lot to answer for in terms of the prices seen in the produce aisle.