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Finnish dairy company Valio is on a mission to reduce milk’s carbon footprint to zero by 2035.
It is doing this by producing biogas from effluent on dairy farms.
Currently the processor has 20 biogas plants on farms.
Energy produced is mostly used to make electricity and heat for the farms.
However, soon vehicles can fill up their tanks with biogas produced from effluent.
The company says biogas will have an important role in reducing transport emissions because it will be one way to replace diesel and petrol fossil fuels.
Fonterra says its ongoing legal battle with Australian processor Bega Cheese won’t change its divestment plans.
With an amendment to the Medicines Act proposing human medicines could be approved in 30 days if the product has approval from two recognised overseas jurisdictions, there’s a call for a similar approach to be applied to animal medicines.
The Government wants to make sure that rural communities get a level of service that people who live in cities often complacently expect.
As the New Zealand Government launches negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement with India, one Canterbury-based vegetable seed breeder is already benefiting from exporting to the world's fifth-largest economy.
Onenui Station on Mahia Peninsula in northern Hawke's Bay is a world first in more ways than one.
Horticulture NZ (HortNZ) is encouraging growers with leadership aspirations to apply for its associate director role on the HortNZ board.
