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Faster kill weights an answer?

Jim Gibbs says earlier slaughter through better feed efficiency may be a partial answer to farming’s emissions mitigation problems.

OPINION: Mitigation strategies killing off the microbes that construct methane from free hydrogen are ineffective, because that hydrogen must be disposed of.

Editorial: No free lunch!

OPINION: The ink was barely dry on the Government’s newly released emissions reductions plan before the whining began.

OPINION: Your old mate reckons recent ‘research’ carried out by consultants PWC – claiming that ‘actively managed carbon forestry’ creates 25% more local jobs than sheep and beef farming on low productivity land – is about as accurate as a bent rifle.

All Claas!

OPINION: Your canine crusader - like many in the sector probably would have - raised an eyebrow when he heard the news that UK Tory Party MP Neil Parish was recently forced to resign after he "accidentally" opened an X-rated video while looking at machinery online.

Done deal

OPINION: This old mutt continues to be flabbergasted by the sheer audacity and mendacious behaviour of the current inhabitants of the Beehive.

Joined at hip?

OPINION: The Hound suggests if there was any doubt that our so-called farmer industry bodies are little more than a bunch of quislings who are fully in the Government's pocket, then a recent publicity stunt will have quelled that doubt.

ANZCO posts record profit

ANZCO Foods chief executive Peter Conley.

Meat processor and exporter ANZCO Foods has joined other NZ agri-sector businesses and reported a record net profit of $75m for the 2021 year.

China's lockdown impacts NZ

Dairy demand in food service is slowing in China.

China's Covid lockdowns are impacting on New Zealand agriculture, according to Rabobank.

FMD scare puts NZ on watch

Biosecurity NZ’s Stuart Anderson says his organisation is closely monitoring the situation in Indonesia.

A recent outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease (FMD) in Indonesia has the NZ agriculture sector and its officials on high alert.

8,000 signed up to NZFAP

New Zealand Farm Assurance Incorporated chair Nick Beeby.

More than 8,000 farm businesses have signed up to the New Zealand Farm Assurance (NZFAP) programme, along with growing numbers of red meat and wool companies.