Cut with care
OPINION: The new government has clearly signalled big cuts across the public service.
OPINION: New Zealand's heavy reliance on International Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) credits makes us dangerously exposed to one of the world’s most volatile markets.
OPINION: I can now say with confidence that the conversation on agricultural emissions is in for a huge shake-up.
Lower replacement rates and higher body weight/lower stocking rates are the two most effective of five available ways of cutting dairy greenhouse gas emissions, a scientist has told a workshop for rural professionals.
News recently that hill country greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are lower than previously estimated is ‘interesting’.
News last month that hill country greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are lower than previously estimated is ‘interesting’.
Will sheep and beef farmers in future grow trees to sell offsets to dairy under the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)?
With emissions regulations now requiring manufacturers to produce ever cleaner engines, the terms SCR and DEF have entered the vocabulary of today's tractor drivers.
Whether you talk cows or tractors the buzzword is emissions, raising the fart problem which the government will have to sort out.
Just as we get to grips with Tier 4 final emission regulations on new tractors and learn the acronyms DOC, DPF, DEF and SCR, around the corner comes Tier 5 engines.
Selective breeding of cattle and sheep and adjusting rumen biology will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
OPINION: The new government has clearly signalled big cuts across the public service.
OPINION: Your canine crusader is not surprised by the recent news that New Zealand plant-based ‘fake meat’ business is in…