Bill doesn’t adequately protect productive farmland – B+LNZ
The Government claims to have delivered on its election promise to protect productive farmland from emissions trading scheme (ETS) but red meat farmers aren’t happy.
OPINION: The number of farms being converted to forestry in the name of tackling climate change in New Zealand is causing alarm.
Now is a group of NZ farming and agribusiness people is saying enough is enough.
They are getting together and bidding to buy an iconic central North Island station to stop it being planted in permanent exotic forest.
Mangaohane Station, nearly 5,000ha just off the Napier-Taihape Road in central North Island, is for sale by international tended through real estate Bayleys.
Bids close on December 7 and its scale, location and clear, easy contour is expected to draw strong overseas interest, particularly from companies seeking to find a source of carbon credits to offset their own fossil fuel emissions.
Forever Farming NZ plant to buy the station by raising the estimated $45m. They intend to keep Mangaohane in Kiwi hands and farming livestock.
Two rural data organisations - DairyNZ’s DairyBase and Farm Focus - have formed a new partnership that aims to remove data duplication and help provide more timely, useful benchmarking insights for farmers.
BNZ says it is backing aspiring dairy farmers through an innovative new initiative that helps make the first step to farm ownership or sharemilking a little easier.
LIC chief executive David Chin says meeting the revised methane reduction targets will rely on practical science, smart technology, and genuine collaboration across the sector.
Lincoln University Dairy Farm will be tweaking some management practices after an animal welfare complaint laid in mid-August, despite the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) investigation into the complaint finding no cause for action.
A large slice of the $3.2 billion proposed capital return for Fonterra farmer shareholders could end up with the banks.
Opening a new $3 million methane research barn in Waikato this month, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay called on the dairy sector to “go as fast as you can and prove the concepts”.
OPINION: Voting is underway for Fonterra’s divestment proposal, with shareholders deciding whether or not sell its consumer brands business.
OPINION: Politicians and Wellington bureaucrats should take a leaf out of the book of Canterbury District Police Commander Superintendent Tony Hill.