Portfolio: Agriculture

Animal Welfare Amendment Bill 2010 (First Reading)

beehive.govt.nz — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:06:38 +1300

David Carter | Agriculture

Mr Speaker, I move that the Animal Welfare Amendment Bill be now read a first time. At the appropriate time, I intend to move that the Animal Welfare Amendment Bill be considered by the Primary Produc...

Official Opening of New Open Country Dairy Processing Factory

beehive.govt.nz — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:09:01 +1300

David Carter | Agriculture

Good afternoon and thank you for inviting me to the official opening of Open Country Dairy's third processing site. I would like to congratulate everyone who is a part of the Open Country Dairy team o...

Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre Graduation Ceremony

beehive.govt.nz — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:16:10 +1300

David Carter | Agriculture

Good afternoon, it is a pleasure to be here to recognise the success of your students and it's fantastic to see so many here to support these young people. Success is a hard goal without the support o...

Statement to World Summit on Food Security

beehive.govt.nz — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:18:46 +1300

David Carter | Agriculture

Mr Chairman, distinguished delegates. I wish to be frank. Very simply we have failed to meet the aspirations set by the World Food Summit in 1996. Rather than reducing, the number of hungry and malnou...

Speech to Federated Farmers National Council

beehive.govt.nz — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:35:23 +1300

John Key | Prime Minister

It's great to be here. I'd like to thank Don Nicolson and members of your National Council for the opportunity to speak today. And I'd like to acknowledge Dr Stephen Goldson, who works with my Chief S...

Walking Access Commission – Launch of National Strategy and Code of Conduct

beehive.govt.nz — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:20:03 +1300

David Carter | Agriculture

Thank you for your introduction John, it's a pleasure to be here today. I'd like to acknowledge your fellow Board members, and welcome representatives of local government, recreation and tourism group...

Address to Meat Industry Association Conference

beehive.govt.nz — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:53:14 +1200

David Carter | Agriculture

Thank you for the introduction, Bill and thanks too to Mark Clarkson for chairing this session on Risk and Complexity. It's a pleasure to be here today to speak at your conference. I want to start by ...

Launch of Draft Canterbury Water Management Strategy

beehive.govt.nz — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:32:05 +1200

David Carter | Agriculture

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Thank you to the Canterbury Mayoral Forum for inviting me to speak today.Thank you Bede O'Malley for your introduction, and I would like to acknowledge Christchurc...

Speech to the Romeo Bragato Winegrowers Conference

beehive.govt.nz — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:20:14 +1200

David Carter | Agriculture

Good morning and thank you for inviting me to speak today. Amongst my portfolio responsibilities I must admit that the wine industry is perhaps the most enjoyable and one that I've always taken a clos...

Farmers' Mutual Group Annual General Meeting

beehive.govt.nz — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:34:12 +1200

David Carter | Agriculture

Good morning everyone, it's a pleasure to be opening the AGM of such an important contributor to our farming industry. Thank you, Greg for your introduction and I would also like to acknowledge the Bo...

Pipfruit New Zealand Annual Conference

beehive.govt.nz — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:22:08 +1200

David Carter | Agriculture

Good morning and thank you for inviting me today. I'd like to acknowledge your Chair, Ian Palmer, the Board of Pipfruit New Zealand and your Chief Executive, Peter Beaven. We are living in extraordina...

NZ Pork Industry Board Conference

beehive.govt.nz — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:54:54 +1200

David Carter | Biosecurity

Good morning everyone. It is a pleasure to be speaking at your 2009 Conference, this time as your Minister of Agriculture and Minister for Biosecurity. Thank you, Chris Trengrove for your introduction...

Food Security in a Changing Global Environment

beehive.govt.nz — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:27:12 +1200

David Carter | Agriculture

Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you this morning. It is a great privilege and honour to be able to present to such a respected institution as Chatham House. Today I want to cover New Zealand...

Federated Farmers of New Zealand Conference

beehive.govt.nz — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:36:42 +1200

David Carter | Agriculture

Good morning and thank you for inviting me to speak to you today. I would like to acknowledge your President Don Nicholson, Councillors and your Chief Executive Conor English. Federated Farmers has c...

Ballance Farm Environment Awards

beehive.govt.nz — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:53:34 +1200

David Carter | Agriculture

Thank you Jim Cotman and the organisers of the Farm Environment Awards Showcase for the opportunity to speak this evening. I would like to acknowledge my parliamentary colleagues. And I also want to t...

Launch of Meat: The Future - Meat Sector Study

beehive.govt.nz — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:18:46 +1200

David Carter | Agriculture

Good afternoon everyone, and thank you for coming to Wellington today for this launch. Thanks to MAF for hosting this launch, and greetings to Tim Ritchie, Conor English and Scott Champion, my fellow ...

Budget 2009 and agricultural research announcement

beehive.govt.nz — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:23:48 +1200

David Carter | Budget 2009

Good morning. Thank you, Peter Townsend, for your introduction. Thank you also to the members of the Canterbury Employers' Chamber of Commerce for the opportunity to speak today. I trust you managed ...

Innovative Foods Cluster Launch

beehive.govt.nz — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:41:54 +1200

David Carter | Agriculture

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, thank you for inviting me here to launch the Canterbury Innovative Foods Cluster. It is always good to be back in Canterbury, my home town. I would like to begin by ...

Celebrating young vegetable growers

beehive.govt.nz — Fri, 15 May 2009 08:17:02 +1200

David Carter | Agriculture

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, growers and guests, thank you for inviting me here tonight. It is always a pleasure to be back in my home town of Christchurch. Thank you also to Graham Martin and t...

Opportunities and challenges in agriculture education

beehive.govt.nz — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:58:16 +1200

David Carter | Agriculture

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. I would like to thank Tony Wilding for his introduction, and congratulate him on his long service to agricultural t...

Celebrating centuries of farming

beehive.govt.nz — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:57:48 +1200

David Carter | Agriculture

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, Mayor Hayes for your introduction. I would like to say a special thank you tonight to the Century Farm and Station Awards' organising committee for inviti...

Investing in innovation

beehive.govt.nz — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:53:33 +1200

David Carter | Agriculture

Good morning. Thank you for the opportunity to speak at the official launch of "Protein Innovation New Zealand" - a new pet food research consortium. As the Minister of Agriculture I was very pleased...

Strategy for New Zealand Dairy Farming Launch

beehive.govt.nz — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:28:23 +1200

David Carter | Agriculture

Good evening. It is a pleasure to be at the launch of Dairy NZ's Strategy for New Zealand Dairy Farming 2009-2020. I would like to acknowledge our Prime Minister, my ministerial colleagues, and welcom...

Animal welfare is important to our welfare

beehive.govt.nz — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:38:13 +1200

David Carter | Agriculture

Good morning. It is a pleasure to be here as the Minister of Agriculture to officially open the Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' National Conference for 2009. I alwa...

Wild and Woolly – Celebrating Natural Fibres

beehive.govt.nz — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:23:37 +1200

David Carter | Agriculture

Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for the opportunity to open your conference. I am pleased to be part of the first joint conference of the New Zealand and Australian Textile Institutes. T...

Speech to AANZFTA Seminars

beehive.govt.nz — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:50:26 +1200

David Carter | Agriculture

Good morning. I am pleased that so many of you have chosen to attend this Seminar on the ASEAN/Australia/New Zealand Free Trade Agreement - or AANZFTA. This is a busy time for the government's t...

Potato, Potatoe

beehive.govt.nz — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:07:59 +1300

David Carter | Agriculture

Good morning ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for the invitation to speak to the Seventh World Potato Congress. A special welcome to: Allan Parker, President of World Potato Congress; Terry Olsen, ch...

Good for the environment and good for business

beehive.govt.nz — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:10:44 +1300

David Carter | Agriculture

Good morning and welcome to the launch of the Dairying and Clean Streams: Snapshot of Progress for 2007/08. I would like to acknowledge my colleague Environment Minister Nick Smith, as well as Barry H...

Getting on with the business of recovery

beehive.govt.nz — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:42:50 +1300

David Carter | Agriculture

Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak with you today at Meat & Wool's Annual General Meeting. I would like to pass on regards from the local MP, Hon Bill English, who is of course also...

The big picture

beehive.govt.nz — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:09:27 +1300

David Carter | Agriculture

Good morning everyone. Thanks to Graeme and to Agcarm president, John Yates and vice-president, Justin Hurst for inviting me here to speak today. Your chief executive, Graeme Peters has good connecti...