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Reducing compliance costs and the impacts of regulation on farmers are key parts of the National Party's agriculture policy, which it released at the Agricultural Fieldays.
National's agriculture spokesman Gavan Herlihy says the rising dollar, interest rates and lower commodity prices are likely to bring the rural sector's golden run to an end.
He says National's aim is to provide the best business environment for farmers to stay competitive.
National says it would also review the hazardous substances and Commodity Levies Acts to reduce costs
And it would crack down even more on biosecurity breaches, with instant deportation of foreign visitors for serious or deliberate flouting of the law, and establish an emergency response fund for biosecurity.
