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OPINION: Your old mate welcomes the proposed changes to local government but notes it drew responses that ranged from the reasonable…
A mate of the Hound reckons outgoing special agricultural trade envoy Mike Petersen, who is due to finish his current role at the end of the year, is currying favour – and job prospects – with the Government by backing its moves to lump agriculture into the ETS.
With the Government wanting to implement huge costs on the livestock farming sector by making New Zealand the only country to include farming in an ETS, this old mutt thought it might actually get serious about funding mitigation research.
It appears many dairy company competitors of Fonterra are worried that some of the proposed changes to the DIRA regulations will give the country’s largest dairy co-op an unfair advantage over them.
Your old mate understands the country’s second largest dairy company, Open Country Dairy (OCD), has just had a ‘stink’ month. During October OCD copped a record fine of more than $221,000 for a “vomitus stench being emitted from its Waharoa factory”.
OPINION: The Government's policy to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in New Zealand is working directly against the goals of the Paris Accord.
OPINION: In theory everyone is happy with the deal struck between the Government and the agricultural sector over emissions.
Farmers understand they must work with the Government to improve the environment, says a noted Massey University scholar.
Fonterra wants the Government to remove suggested maximum required levels of nitrogen and phosphorous in streams.
With the submissions period for proposed water reforms ending last week, the National Party was out and about in the Waikato dairy heartland putting its spin on things.
Co-operative meat processor the Alliance Group will be returning profit back to its farmer shareholders this year.
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Waharoa residents are looking forward to getting on with their lives without “unwanted intrusion” from a nearby milk processing plant.
Primary ITO will apply to the Ministry of Education for more Trades Academy places with demand from schools now outstripping supply.
Several thousand hectares of South Island farmland is a blaze of yellow as the annual rapeseed crop welcomes the spring.
Dealing with agricultural emissions is very much on the radar of farmers, says Beef + Lamb NZ chief executive Sam McIvor.
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