Displaying items by tag: NICOLA SHADBOLT

OPINION: The Hound awaits with baited breath Nicola Shadbolt's Methane Review Panel's findings this month on whether farmers will continue to be marched to the gallows by legislated methane reduction targets.

She came all the way from a sheep station in Tasmania especially to be presented with the top prize in this year's Massey University agriculture, horticulture and environmental science award.

The secretariat of the Government’s new methane science review panel says support from the agricultural industry is central to developing enduring solutions to agricultural emissions.

An independent panel has been named to advice the Government on what the country’s biogenic methane target should be to ensure no additional warming.

OPINION: On their second date, my mother, then 17, told my father that she was a socialist. His response was that he was a conservative, so that would mean that their children would be liberals!

As of 1 May, Plant & Food Research has a new chief executive in Mark Piper.

A recent review of the Mycoplasma bovis eradication programme says the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and the livestock sector were unprepared to tackle a large scale response.

Two former Fonterra directors have been elected to the Cooperative Business New Zealand board.

An independent review into the Mycoplasma bovis eradication strategy has found that the programme is still hindered by poor industry-wide compliance in the recording of animal movements.

An independent review of the Mycoplasma bovis eradication programme has found it is on track to achieve a world-first eradication and makes recommendations to improve the wider biosecurity systems.