Ryan Bridge: The dial has shifted in farming and emissions

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jun 11, 2025 · 1m · transcript

I’ve been reflecting this Fieldays week on how much the dial has shifted in farming and emissions.

We had Chris Hipkins on the Herald Now programme Tuesday admit they essentially don’t currently have a policy in putting agriculture into the ETS.

It was a signature policy platform under Ardern. We had to do it, they told us. It was immoral not to.

Farmers had to pay a higher price, and who cares if it’s CO2 or methane, emissions are emissions.

Labour’s now open to ditching that altogether and softening its tone on farmers.

This is happening for two reasons.

1. People are alive to the fact that…