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OPINION: Was the ASB Economic Weekly throwing shade on Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr when reporting on his speech in Washington recently?
OPINION: It has been a bad couple of weeks publicity-wise for the Ross family, not great news for the supposed marketing experts.
It seems that their son Finn's Carbonz website was forced to pause sales of carbon credits issued by new company CarbonCrop just one day after it was publicly launched.
A media probe found that the 'carbon credits' issued by CarbonCrop didn't require landowners to do anything differently, such as planting seedlings or introducing pest control.
However, government guidance states that carbon offsets must fund additional emissions action.
According to the media report, Carbonz is an online carbon credit marketplace and was founded by Finn Ross, who had worked in partnership with CarbonCrop to develop the new 'credits'.
More than $140,000 of these 'credits' were sold via the Carbonz platform.
A governance group has been formed, following extensive sector consultation, to implement the recommendations from the Industry Working Group's (IWG) final report and is said to be forming a 'road map' for improving New Zealand's animal genetic gain system.
Free workshops focused on managing risk in sharefarming got underway last week.
Annual farmer gathering, the South Island Dairy Event (SIDE), is set to make history as it heads to Timaru for the first time.
Installing 400 solar panels at their Taranaki piggery and cropping operation will have significant environmental, financial and animal welfare benefits for the Stanley family.
WoolWorks, New Zealand’s largest wool-scouring company, has partnered with the Lions Club of Riverton to help raise money for much-needed repairs to the Southland town’s swimming pool.
OPINION: The dairy industry will be a major beneficiary of a new free trade deal between NZ and the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC).
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