Displaying items by tag: JANE SMITH

OPINION: Methane Science Accord, a farmer-led organisation advocating for zero tax on ruminant methane, will be quietly celebrating its first foray into fertiliser co-operative governance.

Ravensdown South Island shareholders have voted Jane Smith to the co-operative board for a three-year term.

North Otago farmer Jane Smith is standing for the Ravensdown South Island director seat.

Prepare for more pine trees. That's the message from North Otago farmer Jane Smith following the new methane emission targets recently announced by the Government.

Farmers round the country are calling on the Government to rein in councils that are trying to push through district plans and other planning processes despite reforms coming to the Resource Management Act (RMA).

OPINION: This old mutt has a lot of time for outspoken North Otago farmer and stud breeder Jane Smith.

North Otago farmer Jane Smith is questioning the modus operandi of AgriZeroNZ - the industry and government partnership working to find a solution to reducing farm methane emissions.

North Otago farmer Jane Smith says He Waka Eke Noa must be scrapped and Beef + Lamb NZ needs to start again with fact this time, not fiction.

With the B+LNZ annual meeting documentation currently hitting farmer's mailboxes, claims are being made that with the unprecedented number of farmer-proposed remits the organisation has become disconnected from its grassroots levy payers. David Anderson reports.

OPINION: Farmer morale is at a low – unseen since the dark days of the 1980s.