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Honda to quit ATVs in Aus

New regulations in Australia around Crush Prevention Devices will see Honda quit selling ATVs in that market.

Honda Australia has signalled it will stop selling quads/ATVs in that country as the discussion about the effectiveness of Crush Prevention Devices (CPD’s) rages on.

ETS will see more farmland lost

Beef+Lamb chief executive Sam McIvor says there is no disincentive in the updated climate change policy to stop the conversion of productive and sustainable pastoral agriculture to exotic plantation forestry for carbon farming.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) believes the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) will see huge swathes of productive farming land converted into trees for carbon farming.

The challenge of meeting environmental rules

Professor Tommy Boland of the University College Dublin, like colleagues in NZ, is looking to find practical solutions that farmers can use to reduce their environmental footprint.

Complying with new and stricter environmental requirements is for farmers a major challenge worldwide.

Nitrogen caps bound to fail

Soil scientist Doug Edmeades says the European approach of implementing environmental policy based on controlling inputs will not work in NZ.

The Government’s decision to cap nitrogen fertiliser inputs at 190 kg N/ha per year is doomed to fail because it ignores basic science, claims soil scientist Doug Edmeades.

Hard times coming for Hawke's Bay

Co-chair of the Hawkes Bay rural advisory group Lochie MacGillivray (centre) says the region is now into the phase of working through the hard yards of the winter. Photo: Michael Schultz Photography.

The recent rain in Hawke's Bay has provided some breathing space for those dealing with the drought, but the real test has still to come during the winter and early spring.

Primary industries drive COVID-19 recovery

Following a new economic report, Ag Minister Damien O’Connor is celebrating primary industries’ role in the COVID-19 recovery.

Further water storage for Northland announced

The Kaikohe project is expected to create 70 jobs in Northland.

IrrigationNZ is commending the Government for funding further water storage as part of its post-COVID infrastructure fast-track.

EU's "unacceptable" offer for NZ

A pathetic trade offer by the European Union has raised the ire of New Zealand politicians and farmer groups, which have strongly condemned the EU’s actions.