This government hates farmers

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And the likes of Fonterra fully realise that they will be screwed down severely if they continue their current production model. If the NZ dairy industry continue in their environmentally damaging ways they will cease to have a market for their products. Dividing the production model into smaller subgroups will only serve to weaken the marketing potential further.

This country is too heavily reliant on dairy exports.
Diversity is important, NZ is more suited to sheep, yet we are seeing land converted to dairy in the south which needs significant amounts of irrigation to be viable.
Sheep could be quite lucrative and more emphasis needs to be made on wool products too.
Environmental impact with sheep is virtually none too compared to dairy.

But you asked me earlier to "Prove to me that sheep are changing the climate". Was that a trick question?