Jo Luxton

Absolutely brilliant day yesterday at Brent Mountford’s sheep and beef farm near Matatā where he has put large areas into QEII covenants. It’s truly spectacular and another example of NZ Farmers caring for the land and environment in which they farm. @FedFarmers

A truly wonderful evening of celebration, acknowledging all the passion & dedication of those involved in Horticulture here in NZ. 🥑🍎Congrats to all the award winners 🏆🥇A special acknowledgment of Nadine who’s been an outstanding CE of @HortNZ . Go well in your next venture👏

Since the election building consents have fallen 26%, there are 6,000 fewer jobs in building and construction, and business confidence in the sector has collapsed. An international survey has said NZ’s building sector is the most depressed in the world. #goingbackwards

It’s pretty simple - stopping Kainga Ora building houses, slashing funding for Community Housing Providers and making it harder to access Emergency Housing will increase homelessness. The Government were warned and did it anyway. They don’t care. rnz.co.nz/news/political…

Another awesome awards evening last night, this time celebrating our fabulous Arable Farmers 🌾 Well done to all the finalists and congratulations to the winners 🏆 @FedFarmers @yolofarmernz @markpfarmer @Pandasport

Looking forward to a wonderful evening celebrating our Arable Farmers 🌾 @FedFarmers

Brilliant visit to @lewisrdcreamery before heading back to Welly this arvo. Thanks Prem for sharing your incredibly innovative ideas!! These guys are big fans of @DBI_NZ beetles too and have them all over their farms!! Can’t wait to sample my butter 🧈 🐄🥛

I’ve just had an awesome visit to @DBI_NZ These guys may be little but boy they are powerhouses at mooving poo 🐄💩 Some can even take poo up to a metre underground!! This is great for soil & real benefits to pasture growth. ✅✅ Thanks so much Shaun for giving me the grand tour.

Last weekend I had the privilege of attending FMG Young Farmer of the Year. What an incredible night! Congrats to George Dodson for the win. 🏆 @yolofarmernz @Pandasport @FarmUpNZ1 @markpfarmer

Last week was pretty much Hamilton based! Labour caucus met with representatives from the Ag sector for a couple of days to chew the fat and visit a few farms. Good robust, honest conversations were had and new connections made. Thanks for hosting us @FedFarmers.

@AlTaylorNZ @blairdrysdale77 @JonathanPowles Looks like I’m gonna be on time too!

@blairdrysdale77 @JonathanPowles Pretty impressed they got it down first time, must have known @joluxx had places to be 🙏

What a week in parliament!! Finished midnight Saturday, lovely to be home for a few days. Amidst all the busyness it was really great to catch up with Kate and some of her team from @NZBeefLamb . Plenty to chew the fat about, looking forward to next time!

Happy World Milk Day from Parliament this morning 🥛🐄

Back in Gizzy! Really great to catch up with Toby and have a look around the farm and meet the team. What a beautiful outlook, best office view ever!! Thanks for letting me gatecrash your Friday arvo! @FedFarmers @nzlabour

Looking forward to hearing from the panel today and all things relating to freshwater & catchment groups. Seems to be a day for hearing from @FedFarmers , now it’s @yolofarmernz’s turn.

Looking forward to hearing from @FedFarmers today for our briefing into Rural Banking. @RuralWomenNewZealand are up first.

I don’t trust the National Party on housing, but I was still shocked to see reports tonight that they’re going to scrap the First Home Grant. Throughout our time in Govt they pushed us to expand the grant. Now it’s gone to pay for tax cuts. Hypocrites, plain and simple.

✨WHAT.A.NIGHT✨🏆🐄 An amazing evening celebrating excellence in Māori Farming. A huge congrats to Ben Purua on taking out the Young Māori Farmer award; what an acceptance speech, not a dry eye in the house! @adrianrurawhe @yolofarmernz @FarmUpNZ1 @farm4_life @ahuwhenuatrophy

Lovely to catch up with @TangiU the fab MP for Palmerston North this morning after attending the awesome @NZBeefLamb 🐂🐑AgInnovation conference, now heading back to Welly & then on Hamilton for Ahuwhenua Trophy 🏆awards. So many great people to celebrate in NZ Agriculture🚜🌾🐄

Super impressed with @juliajones110 talk this morning Digital Harvest:Sowing Seeds of AI & Human intuition @NZBeefLamb #AgInnovation