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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.

The global climate change conference in Paris drew a record number of world leaders to the opening last week. Federated Farmers dairy industry group chair Andrew Hoggard looks at the debate.

"We already have low-emission climate-friendly farming practices – it's called organic farming," says Marion Thomson, co-chair of Soil & Health.

A further $20m was pledged by Prime Minister John Key at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris for research into reduced agricultural greenhouse gases emissions.

Federated Farmers has welcomed the Government's decision not to include agriculture in the scope of the Emissions Trading Scheme review.

Federated Farmers says the Government's climate change target, announced last week, is an ambitious one for New Zealand in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30% below 2005 levels by 2030.

New Zealand scientists have identified animal-safe compounds that can reduce methane emissions from sheep and cattle by up to 90%.