Displaying items by tag: climate change

OPINION: The Government's recent announcement that methane targets will be reviewed is bringing relief to farmers.

Milk MaP's senior farm business consultant, Andrew Trounce, says thriving in today’s volatile farming climate is a complicated conversation.

The dry weather in some parts of the North Island has received medium-scale adverse event classification from the Government.

Marlborough Federated Farmers has got some real concern about the mental wellbeing of farmers and their families in the region because of the drought and there’s a lot of pressure starting to build.

The Government has expanded the medium-scale adverse event classification to cover the Canterbury and Otago regions.

OPINION: Leo Cooney's opinion article (December 5) “Carbon Credits a Discredit” rekindled for me questions about climate change, the ETS, and indeed the whole matter of climate change formerly known as global warming.

Climate change mitigation – upholding our global reputation

For Kiwifruit growers globally, climate change is the number one issue.

Climate change, record low farmer confidence and an avalanche of government-sponsored regulations dominated the inaugural Rural Issues Debate in Hamilton earlier this month.

Climate change presents a wholly different and more persistent challenge for the insurance sector and its customers than the recent pandemic, supply chain issues and inflation.