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I’d like to thank dairy farmers for their valuable input in this process – thousands of you have attended meetings, asked questions and made submissions – you’ve also fed back and guided us on what we should be doing as an industry organisation. We have had
a high quality, hard-working team working tirelessly to ensure your interests are represented in this submission.
Under the Essential Freshwater proposal, there are policies we do and don’t support. Those we don’t support are due to a lack of robust supporting science linking the proposed policy to actual water quality outcomes – our economic analysis indicates they would
come with significant cost. We believe there are better ways to achieve the desired results than those proposed.
The Government and dairy farmers can work together to deliver lasting water quality gains at a more rapid pace, and at significantly less socio-economic cost than what is proposed.
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