Federated Farmers' new vice president Sandra Faulkner says the issue of adverse events emergency management and infrastructure needs to be taken out of the three-year political cycle. "Hopefully the emergency management legislation which is now before parliament will not suffer from political interference," she told Rural News. Faulkner says while there is fierce competition for road funding and other forms of infrastructure such as telecommunications, she believes that decision makers should think about where the export dollars come from - namely the folks that live in rural communities. But Faulkner says most important of all is having reliable connectivity when there is an adverse weather event such as recent floods in Wairarapa. "These are generational legislative changes and will determine how our children and grandchildren farm in the future.