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Comment: seeing trees for the wood

April 17, 2018

The forestry sector is fired up with discussion about how to meet the Government’s One Billion Trees planting initiative. Partnering with red meat farmers to help them achieve what they want to achieve with trees […]

Gore sheep farmers win Otago Ballance Farm Environment Awards

April 16, 2018

A love of family, farming and the land has seen the successful succession of Waipahi sheep farm from Ross and Alexa Wallace to their son Logan… and also helped the family win the Otago Ballance […]

Environment under the spotlight at Beef + Lamb NZ’s Annual Meeting

March 23, 2018

The sheep and beef sector is well-placed to turn the challenges into opportunities and reap the rewards, farmers were told at Beef + Lamb NZ’s Annual Meeting in Gisborne yesterday. James Parsons, outgoing chair at […]

Barber’s Wire: Doubtful Landcorp will ever deliver acceptable return

March 16, 2018

The latest half year result to 31 December gives rise to serious doubt whether Landcorp, or Pāmu Farms as it now likes to be known, will ever justify the taxpayer investment in a national farming […]

NZAGRC leaders to contribute to next IPCC report

March 16, 2018

The director and deputy director of the New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre (NZAGRC) have been appointed to prestigious international scientific leadership roles for the next wide-ranging climate change report by the Intergovernmental Panel […]

One billion tree planting programme begins

February 28, 2018

Pāmu Farms of New Zealand (Landcorp) is one of the first red meat farmers to make a start on the coalition government’s one billion tree planting programme aimed at meeting New Zealand’s commitments under the […]

Barber’s Wire: Climate change report indicates challenges for NZ agriculture

April 19, 2017

GLOBE-NZ, a group of 35 MPs from all the main parties, has released a report by UK firm Vivid Economics which lays out various scenarios for New Zealand to meet the target of zero emissions […]

Low biological emissions future for NZ red meat sector

October 20, 2016

New Zealand’s red meat sector needs to have a low biological emissions future. While there is no single silver bullet, making a gradual transition to diversifying land use, adding parts of the biological emissions to the NZ […]

NZ sets up new primary sector groups to support climate change goals

August 17, 2016

Two new reference groups will help support New Zealand’s climate change goals and reduce emissions from the livestock and forestry sectors, Primary Industries Ministers Nathan Guy and Jo Goodhew have announced today. “As part of […]

Red meat companies amongst those considering NZ ETS Review

November 27, 2015

Red meat companies and farms are among the businesses that will be responding to the Government’s review of the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme ( NZ ETS) to assess its operation and effectiveness to 2020 […]

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