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Animal health solutions key to meeting emissions targets

Improving animal health can increase livestock productivity and limit emissions.

Animal diseases are associated with significant increases in livestock greenhouse gas emissions, land use and reduced productivity.

Science behind ETS needs a reassessment

Former AgResearch Invermay head Jock Allison says science is never settled.

OPINION: Government, industry representatives and media always state: “our commentary, policy etc., is science based” and “the science is settled”.

Taxpayers stung

In what your old mate reckons is par for the course for the current Government, it has blown more taxpayer money on a wasted cause.

Deafening silence

OPINION: This old mutt reckons the climate alarmists at multi-national, tax-dodging, fundraising outfit Greenpeace should be delighted with news that NZ's sheep and dairy cow numbers are falling.

Follow suit!

OPINION: As your old mate - as well as many in the sector - expected, the Budget had nothing in it for the country's all-important primary sector.

OPINION: There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth when the Hound revealed that a certain weakly (sic) farming publication had stuck their noses into the taxpayer trough via the Government's controversial $55 million Public Interest Journalism Fund (PIJF).

Editorial: Reality bites!

Farmers may not be quite so willing to open their chequebooks at this year's fieldays as they were in previous years.

OPINION: With National Fieldays around the corner, many farmers will be making their annual pilgrimage to Mystery Creek this year.

Rural youth job scheme success

Mayor Alex Walker says the rural youth job scheme has been key to Central Hawke’s Bay consistently having one of the lowest unemployment rates in New Zealand.

A scheme to help young people into jobs has been key to central Hawke's Bay consistently having one of the lowest unemployment rates in New Zealand.

Seeds of change

Thomas Chin, general manager of the New Zealand Plant Breeders Association.

A proposed recycling levy on commonly used polyethylene woven seed sacks and bags is likely to come into effect next year.

$2.5m investment in methane mitigation

New Zealand researchers working on a methane vaccine for use on farm.

The Centre for Climate Action Joint Venture (the JV) says it will invest up to $2.5 million to support research on developing a methane vaccine and methane inhibitor for use on New Zealand farms.