Strong submissions needed to correct native veg flaws

By Donna Ward
Updated June 9 2016 - 10:53am, first published 12:00am
CALL TO ACTION: NSW Farmers members Peter Jeffrey, Bronwyn Petrie and Sandra Smith discuss the draft Native Vegetation Act at the recent Tenterfield meeting.
CALL TO ACTION: NSW Farmers members Peter Jeffrey, Bronwyn Petrie and Sandra Smith discuss the draft Native Vegetation Act at the recent Tenterfield meeting.

The much-anticipated reforms to the Native Vegetation Act go part way to achieving a better balance between food and fibre production and biodiversity protection, but most gains are getting lost in complexity and through other limitations, local farmers were told at a recent NSW Farmers meeting at the Tenterfield Golf Club.

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