Animal Identification and Traceability
Federated Farmers is a strong supporter of biosecurity, incursion response, food safety and consumer confidence on farm products facilitating trade access. New Zealand currently uses a number of systems to achieve these objectives.
The Federation is not yet convinced that the proposed National Animal Identification and Tracing Scheme (NAIT), can enhance these objectives over existing systems.
Federated Farmers calls on NAIT to address this difference of opinion by undertaking a comprehensive and robust needs analysis and a new cost benefit analysis. This needs to compare the additional costs and benefits of the proposed NAIT bureaucracy with existing systems.
Who Speaks For Farmers on Animal Identification
The spokesmen for NAIT on the National Board are Bruce Wills or Lachlan McKenzie.
You can contact them on:
Lachlan McKenzie, 07 332 3440, 021 382 442 or email lmckenzie@fedfarm.org.nz
Bruce Wills 06 834 9704, 027 234 1516 or email :bwills@fedfarm.org.nz
Our policy advisor for NAIT is Mark Ross. He can be contacted on 0800 327 646 or mross@fedfarm.org.nz
