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Profit focus can reduce CO2 emissions

When I started work 20 years ago on a system to improve farm profitability I had no idea it would lead to ways of increasing soil carbon and reducing GHG emissions.

Shrinking minority

This old mutt suggests that if the polls are correct in picking a change of government at the election, then the farmer voice in Parliament is likely to get even smaller.

Meanwhile, the Hound hears that the supposedly kind, caring, friendly-to-everyone Labour leader Jacinda Ardern is showing none of these qualities towards her fellow female leader Katie Milne, Fed Farmers national president.

No shows

Your canine crusader hears that Labour candidates and MPs are failing to front farmer meetings to defend the party’s proposed water tax policy.

Rinsed

The Hound reckons while most in farming are focused on the election on September 23, another interesting poll is in view for the Fonterra board on October 31.

Deer a profitable option in hill country

Over the past decade, the deer industry has seen relatively steady returns despite variability in schedule prices.

Despite challenges from competing land use and a drop in the national deer herd, the industry is well positioned to fulfil New Zealand’s goal to provide high quality protein products to the world’s best-heeled consumers.

Hort winner aiming for leadership

Young Grower of the Year Erin Atkinson says she has leadership ambitions in the horticultural sector.

Young Grower of the Year Erin Atkinson (30) says the industry is at a critical time of change with many opportunities for innovations and inventions.

Rare sheep rustlers in for the chop

Rare breeds sheep farmer Daniel Wheeler’s five pregnant ewes were slaughtered by thieves on a paddock in a Christchurch City Council reserve, where he grazes the world’s only mob of Campbell Island sheep. The loss leaves him with just 30 breeding ewes.

Rare breeds sheep farmer Daniel Wheeler is hoping someone will dob in the thieves responsible for slaughtering five of his rare Campbell Island ewes in their grazing paddock on the outskirts of Christchurch.

Aussie red meat marketers won’t repent

Australia's red meat industry will not repent about new television advertising for lamb that has some Christians and Hindus up in arms.

Farmers seek carrot, not a big stick

The Mega Cow on Morrinsville’s Thames Street was a fitting location for around 500 farmers and rural folk who had had enough of the negativity generated in recent weeks by campaigning political parties, and the threat of water and carbon taxes to sort environmental problems out.

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Farmers must have say on any water tax

The Labour Party’s water tax policy is “pretty short on details,” and the farming sector needs to have input into a final plan, says Beef + Lamb NZ chairman James Parsons.