Displaying items by tag: Environment

This year it is Wellington's turn to host New Zealand Farm Environment Trust's annual Sustainability Showcase.

Environment will be the focus of Waikato Regional Council at Fieldays.

New Zealand should start looking at creating specific food products which meet the special and unique needs of the elderly, the young and those of specific religious faiths.

With the Waikato and Waipa rivers catchments due to face new targets and limits for water quality, farmers are being encouraged to be proactive over environment-related changes to their operations.

An "unworkable and economically” damaging recent Environment Court decision will not be challenged by Horticulture New Zealand because of the cost and time involved.

Australian beef farmers have markedly reduced their greenhouse gas emissions and water use in the last 30 years, according to a new study.

A company, which owns a Cambridge dairy farm, has received a fine totalling $26,000 for a range of offences relating to the property.

A Mackenzie Country farming couple were the big winners at last week’s 2015 Canterbury Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA), taking home the supreme winner and four other awards.

Farmers don't want weaker environmental policies. Ten years ago we were fair game for the ‘dirty dairying’ remarks by Fish & Game, today not so much.

Farmers in New Zealand are starting to ‘cotton on’ to the concept of farming within environmental limits.