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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
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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
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- 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
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Category Archives: Dairy
Dairy industry needs strategic A2 policy
in recent years, the level of A2 beta-casein in New Zealand milk has been increasing rapidly and the level of A1 beta-casein has been correspondingly decreasing. Unpublished data from New Zealand’s leading herd-improvement cooperative, LIC, which was supplied to me … Continue reading
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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
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
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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
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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
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Moving forward with methane levies
Split-gas breaks the link to charging methane emissions based on contentious carbon dioxide equivalence. It opens the door to a levy based on research, development, extension and education (RDE&E) needs rather than simply a tax In my last article I … Continue reading
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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
Dairy is fundamental to New Zealand’s future but it needs an informed debate
The key message of this article is that dairy is of fundamental importance to the future of Aotearoa New Zealand. However, the journey to get there is not straight forward and it will be controversial. First, I set out the … Continue reading
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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
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Wrestling with methane metrics
The methane debate is more about politics, policy and value judgements than it is about science In my previous article, I explained how there is much controversy about how methane should be compared to carbon dioxide in terms of global … Continue reading
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