Displaying items by tag: climate change

Over the next two weeks, more than 1,500 farmers around New Zealand are getting to grips with why and how they should start responding to a changing climate, thanks to new workshops run by Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) and Silver Fern Farms (SFF).

OPINION: "The carbon market is based on the lack of delivery of an invisible substance to no one."

OPINION: I don't doubt the climate is changing as it always has and that all the current policies and plans the politicians want to implement aren't going to fix their concerns.

Dairy Farmers are playing their part in tackling climate change alongside all other sectors.

The cost of carbon emissions will continue to rise, and so will consumer demand for emissions reductions.

Genetics will play a key role in helping dairy farmers meet climate targets at a herd level, while maintaining the highest quality milk production, says CRV managing director James Smallwood.

A top climate change policy advisor to the Irish government says Ireland and New Zealand should become close allies to combat the negative narrative against the dairy industry. Peter Burke reports.

Climate Change Minister James Shaw says New Zealand dairy is the world's lowest greenhouse gas emitter but that's not good enough.

OPINION: If you ask me, climate change is here in spades.

Climate change and a labour shortage are two of the big issues being faced by NZ's primary sector at present.