Displaying items by tag: Environment
Hoofprint protects farmer access
Meat processor and exporter Alliance Group has underlined its environmental credentials by making its innovative Hoofprint programme progressively available to all suppliers.
Spread word on environment gains
New Zealanders need to hear more about the great progress farmers are making to lift their environmental performance, says Ballance Agri-Nutrients chairman David Graham.
'Wrong to blame just farming'
Federated Farmers believes observations by the World Wildlife Fund for nature highlights how the environment needs everybody working together, town and country united.
Reward for fencing streams
The importance of streamside fencing and planting to Taranaki's dairy industry was highlighted today as four farmers were rewarded for their commitment to the work.
Ballance winners back from Europe
Southland farmers Grant and Bernie Weller love talking about their farm and the challenges of balancing profitability with environmental sustainability.
Feds welcome water report
Federated Farmers welcomes the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment's (PCE) report, Water quality in New Zealand: Understanding the science, which puts the responsibility for cleaning up our rivers and lakes on all New Zealanders, not just dairy farmers.
Environmment award adds to list
An "absolute passion for the land" has earned Hawke's Bay sheep and beef farmer James Hunter the Supreme title in the 2012 East Coast Ballance Farm Environment Awards.