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- 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
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- HWEN submission
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- 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
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- 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
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Author Archives: Keith Woodford
Bird flu presents lots of uncertainty for both animals and humans
My knowledge about bird flu was very little until I received a request to find someone who could assess the risks within a New Zealand context, including a suggestion that I might, if necessary, self-nominate. I could not identify anyone … Continue reading
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
Synlait cannot survive without major asset sales plus major new equity
Synlait’s announcements to the NZX on 2 April 2024 make it clear that it is battling for survival. Notes to the half-yearly accounts confirm that there are big doubts as to whether it will be able to continue as a … Continue reading
Posted in Dairy, Synlait, Uncategorized
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Can kiwifruit help fill the gap?
New Zealand has an unbalanced economy and desperately needs more exports. Kiwifruit is one of the few industries with potential to help fill the gap. *** New Zealand’s economy is in trouble. It is not just inflation and the cost … Continue reading
Posted in horticulture, Uncategorized
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The A2 milk journey is just beginning
I have been involved with the A2 milk journey since 2004 when I first started writing about A1 and A2 beta-casein. Then in 2007 I wrote the book ‘Devil in the Milk’ about A1 and A2 beta-casein and the associated … Continue reading
Posted in A1 and A2 milk, Synlait, Uncategorized
Tagged Dairy, food, health, milk, nutrition
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Where does Synlait’s future lie?
For much of the last 20 years, Synlait was an entrepreneurial player in the New Zealand dairy industry, with a strong focus on growth. For a long time, Synlait seemed to be doing everything right. Alas, after remarkable growth through … Continue reading
Posted in A1 and A2 milk, Dairy, Synlait, Uncategorized
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Methane’s path to the future
Taxing methane is not the answer. But we cannot walk away from the need to reduce methane-intensity in pastoral products. —– In recent articles, I have attempted to explain some of the global warming complexities of methane. I did that … Continue reading
Posted in Dairy, Greenhouse Gases, Methane, sheep and beef farms, Uncategorized
Tagged Dairy, Greenhouse Gases, Methane, New Zealand, pastoral, sheep
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Finding firm ground for the methane debate
In my recent article on methane, criticisms that I made of the proposed GWP*metric, pronounced ‘GWP-star’, stirred up responses from some of my agricultural friends and colleagues. Many farmers and also important farmer organisations would like to see GWP*used as … Continue reading
Posted in Greenhouse Gases, Methane, The economy, Uncategorized
Tagged GWP*, GWP500, Methane
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How should methane emissions be calculated?
In 2006, I wrote a paper that was published in the journal ‘Primary Industry Management’ titled “Agriculture’s Greenhouse Gases: how should they be calculated”. Eighteen years later I am returning to that topic. In the intervening years both I and … Continue reading
Posted in Greenhouse Gases, Methane, Uncategorized
Tagged climate-change, environment, environmental-impact, global-warming, Greenhouse Gases
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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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