REX January 31st - Dr Liz Shackleton from Animal & Plant Health NZ, Mark Piper from Plant & Food Research and Kara Biggs from Campaign for Wool NZ
On today's REX Daily Podcast, Dom talks with Animal & Plant Health NZ Chief Executive Dr Liz Shackleton about co-signing a letter along with eleven other primary sector businesses and organisations, urging the government to take bold action to help clear the backlog of applications for new animal and plant health products... He talks with Plant & Food Research CEO Mark Piper about the government's decision to merge the Crown Research Institutes as part of sweeping changes to the science sector and what it means for the various entities... And he talks with Campaign for Wool NZ GM Kara Biggs about Kāinga Ora's decision to give wool carpet providers the chance to tender for supply of carpet and underlay in its homes. Tune in daily for the latest and greatest REX rural content on your favourite streaming platform, visit rexonline.co.nz and follow us on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn for more.