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.
A US-based company developing a vaccine to reduce methane emissions in cattle has received another capital injection from New Zealand’s agriculture sector.
Wools of New Zealand has signed a partnership agreement with a leading Chinese manufacturer as the company looks to further grow demand in China and globally.
Opportunities for Māori are there for the taking if they scale up their operations and work more closely together.
OPINION: Farmer shareholders of two of New Zealand's largest co-operatives have an important decision to make this month and what they decide could change the landscape of the dairy and meat sectors in New Zealand.
As the first of a new series of interprofessional rural training hubs opened in South Taranaki late September, Rural Health Network has celebrated the move as a "key pathway to encourage the growth and retention of health professionals in rural areas".
OPINION: Dairy industry players are also falling by the wayside as the economic downturn bites around the country.
OPINION: Methane Science Accord, a farmer-led organisation advocating for zero tax on ruminant methane, will be quietly celebrating its first…