Displaying items by tag: Environment

OPINION: Why are New Zealand cows emitting so much methane?

The answer lies in the poor quality of pasture the animal is consuming.

A new scientific article on the management of soil phosphorus makes fascinating reading, writes Dr Bert Quin, managing director of Quin Environmentals.

Former Prime Minister John Key says imposing another tax on farmers now for greenhouse gas emissions won’t achieve much.

Lewis Road Creamery is moving to help a South Auckland community in its work to improve the health of a river.

Climate change policy and the emissions trading scheme (ETS) are farmers’ biggest concerns.

Southland farming leaders and environmental activists have called for a breather in their set-to over winter grazing practices.

All Fonterra farms will get a unique report about their biological emissions within 15 months.

OPINION: Despite the much hyped claim by certain prophets about the ‘historic’ agreement between the farming sector and the Government over the Zero Carbon Bill, the rumblings of discontent are growing louder by the day.

Dairy farmers have made clear to the Government that they don’t support a methane reduction target of 24% to 47% by 2050.

Farmers may think the pressure of climate change today is bad, but it will get much, much worse, says Primary Sector Council chairman Lain Jager.