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- Dairy industry needs strategic A2 policy
- Bird flu presents lots of uncertainty for both animals and humans
- Farm forestry options in a world of imponderables
- Synlait cannot survive without major asset sales plus major new equity
- Can kiwifruit help fill the gap?
- The A2 milk journey is just beginning
- Where does Synlait’s future lie?
- Methane’s path to the future
- Finding firm ground for the methane debate
- How should methane emissions be calculated?
- Carbon farming needs long-term rules
- Big carbon farming decisions lie ahead
- Sequestration rules will change
- Moving forward with methane levies
- Agricultural GHG bullets are firing randomly
- Key methane technologies misfire
- Simon Upton, methane and forestry
- Voluntary sequestration schemes create opportunities as well as confusion
- Carbon credits are not created equal
- Dairy is fundamental to New Zealand’s future but it needs an informed debate
- Carbon farming rocket has taken off
- Mega changes announced to forestry and carbon policies
- Climate Change Commission pours reality on HWEN proposals
- Wrestling with methane metrics
- The methane issue is far from settled
- Can agriculture meet its methane targets?
- The future for sheep
- Fonterra’s new capital structure gets closer
- Are pine trees the problem or the solution?
- He Waka Eke Noa is now the main game in rural politics
- HWEN submission
- Forestry rules about to be upturned
- He Waka Eke Noa caught in crosswinds
- Carbon farming is back in the melting pot
- Agriculture’s greenhouse gas proposals need a reset
- The carbon price marches on
- 2022 will be tumultuous for New Zealand’s primary industries
- Economic storm clouds lie ahead
- Managing inflation will be painful
- Crunch times ahead for agricultural methane and nitrous oxide
- New twists to carbon farming
- Dairy is a key to New Zealand’s future
- Wrestling with forestry decisions
- The COVID trajectory has taken off
- New Zealand needs a COVID reset
- Post-1989 forest owners face complex decisions
- Fonterra moves on strategy and stucture
- The ETS is both a goldmine and a minefield
- Carbon farming will determine the future of sheep, beef and production forestry
- Institutional investors outgun Government at carbon auction
Category Archives: Carbon Farming
Farm forestry options in a world of imponderables
In early April I spoke to the New Zealand Farm Forestry Conference in Napier about farm forestry options as I saw them. Most of the farmers I was talking to have had many years of experience in farm forestry, so … Continue reading
Carbon farming needs long-term rules
I wrote recently about the need for big decisions by Government to sort out the rules for carbon farming. In that context, I was more than a little interested to see what the Coalition Agreement would come up with. The … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Farming, forestry, Uncategorized
Tagged climate-change, renewable-energy, sustainable-farming
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Big carbon farming decisions lie ahead
For the last twelve months I have been sitting on the sidelines, watching and listening to ongoing debates, but too distracted by my own battle with pancreatic cancer to play an active part. That battle goes on, but right now … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Farming, forestry, Uncategorized
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Key methane technologies misfire
Methane technology breakthroughs cannot stop cannot ruminants from doing what comes naturally Reducing methane production from pastoral agriculture lies at the heart of efforts to make pastoral agriculture more climate friendly. If only sheep and cattle could be made … Continue reading
Simon Upton, methane and forestry
Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton says there are good reasons to allow forestry offsets for methane rather than for fossil fuels Simon Upton, in his role as Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, has produced a new ‘Note’ for … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Farming, forestry, Greenhouse Gases, Uncategorized
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Voluntary sequestration schemes create opportunities as well as confusion
Native forests that began regenerating prior to 1990 are excluded from the ETS. This opens opportunities for voluntary schemes independent of Government. In a recent article, I wrote how carbon credits are not created equal. This inequality is now leading … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Farming, forestry, Uncategorized
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Carbon credits are not created equal
Carbon offsets are fundamental to New Zealand’s greenhouse-gas policies. However, not all offsets are created equal. That sets the scene for all sorts of games to be played, with winners and losers. This is further complicated by marketing ploys that … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Farming, forestry, Greenhouse Gases, Uncategorized
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Carbon farming rocket has taken off
Nothing matches carbon-farming economics on sheep and beef land This last week I spent two days in Rotorua at the New Zealand carbon-forestry conference where I was also one of the speakers. Both I and others presented perspectives on the … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Farming, sheep and beef farms, Uncategorized
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Mega changes announced to forestry and carbon policies
There were two big announcements by Government entities in the last week of July affecting forestry rules and carbon pricing. To a large extent, the announcements escaped media scrutiny. That lack of scrutiny was because explanations require an understanding … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Farming, forestry, Greenhouse Gases, Uncategorized
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Climate Change Commission pours reality on HWEN proposals
Industry groups now need to decide how to manage the HWEN stand-off with the risk of being left outside the tent Big decisions are now required, both by rural industry groups and Government, following the Climate Change Commission advice on … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Farming, Dairy, forestry, Greenhouse Gases, Uncategorized
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