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Wednesday, 19 November 2025 11:25

Wrong focus?

Written by  The Hound
Wrong focus?

OPINION: The Hound reckons a big problem with focusing too much on the wrong goal - reducing livestock emissions at the expanse of food production, in this case - is that the Government starts throwing taxpayer coin at increasingly ridiculous ideas.

Case in point, the 'she-wee' for cows.

Developed by a Canterbury start-up, the small, lightweight device apparently attaches to the blunt end of the cow and spreads its urine so it can be used as a fertiliser - allowing nitrogen to be better absorbed by pasture.

A nice media opportunity for Ministers Willis and Reti, but this mutt doubts that fitting mobile shower heads to 6.8 million cows is going to be practical or shift the needle on emissions.

And yet $1.2 million has gone into this project via the government-industry partnership.

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