Displaying items by tag: climate change
Better pasture management key to climate change mitigation
OPINION: It can only get harder to farm during the next 10 to 20 years — but pasture-based mitigation techniques can help.
Primary sector’s commitment to reducing emissions
Primary sector leaders have come together to make an unprecedented commitment to reducing and mitigating agricultural emissions.
Pasture key tool in fighting emissions
It can only get harder to farm during the next 10 to 20 years.
Submissions for Zero Carbon Bill close July 16
Public submissions are being accepted for Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill.
Feeding the fart tax debate
Farmers are working hard to help the environment, but the ‘quoted experts’ need to work hard too, explains Greg Jarratt, vet and director of Matamata Veterinary Services.
Reversing the trend of degradation
Environment Minister David Parker recently told a Forest & Bird meeting about the Productive and Sustainable Land Use package unveiled in the Budget. Here are excerpts from his speech.
Have your say on the Zero Carbon Bill
Farmers are being urged to have their say — via the internet — on the Government’s proposed Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill.
Real money in budget for farmers
Real money and real commitment in the government’s Budget will help farmers make necessary changes to their farming systems, says the Minister of Agriculture, Damien O’Connor.
A recipe for disaster — Editorial
OPINION: That old saying about not being able to see the wood for the trees could well describe the government’s infatuation with forestry at the expense of farming.
Call for no more trees
A new lobby group is calling for an immediate halt to the government’s plans to plant a billon trees, saying it will damage the environment and harm New Zealand’s rural economy.
