With our regular host Bryan Gibson away on a break, senior Farmers Weekly contributing journalist Richard Rennie talks to Federated Farmers meat and fibre chair Toby Williams, who offers his thoughts on why the government's decision to loosen foreign investment regulations is a good thing for the primary sector, both at a processing level and at a farm ownership level.
With New Zealand well at the bottom of the heap for ease of foreign investment, the ability to buy land for farming here may go some way to even up the imbalance of foreign investment between forestry and farming.
