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Recent Posts
- Conversion of farms to forestry is now ramping up
- Mycoplasma bovis eradication assessed as still feasible but with major caveats
- Chilean Dairy and Fonterra
- Agricultural GDP leaves out more than it includes
- Fonterra’s new strategy
- Fonterra’s company culture lies at the heart of the matter
- Fonterra’s capital structure is no longer fit for purpose
- Fonterra has milked dry its Chilean cash cow
- Is there a future for Oz Fonterra as Fonterra’s finances unravel?
- Fonterra’s losses provide more questions than answers
- Forestry decisions need to be made now
- New A2 milk research provides digestive and cognitive evidence in young children
- It’s time for a stocktake on Mycoplasma bovis
- Uncertainty plus unique ownership structure drive Fonterra share volatility
- Decision time at Westland for Yili bid
- Carbon farming has hidden consequences
- DIRA review nibbles at the status quo and avoids the big questions
- Why methane is different
- Fonterra’s strategic reset is up against headwinds.
- Zero Carbon Bill is just the start for agriculture’s greenhouse gas adaptation
- The big get bigger in American agriculture
- Where to for Chiwi agrifood
- Westland Co-operative Dairy demise is self-inflicted
- Farming for cash and capital gain: the rules have changed
- Mycoplasma bovis eradication risks are much greater than admitted
- The pain of Mycoplasma bovis is not being shared fairly
- Dairy debt an outcome of wayward policy and land-banking
- Finding the path for dairy
- Wilding pines march across the Wakatipu landscape
- Mycoplasma bovis eradication is far from done and dusted
- Fonterra’s strategic reset interacts with new Board dynamics.
- Does Russia belong in the West or the East?
- It’s different in Russia
- Mycoplasma communication team needs to play with a straight bat
- The sun must never set on New Zealand’s agriculture
- A2 becomes a global dairy disruptor
- Mycoplasma bovis compensation mired in delays as plot thickens
- Fonterra has three alternatives for its China Farms and none are attractive
- Fonterra’s China Farms are a target for asset sales
- Dairy co-operatives struggle without retained earnings
- Scratching beneath the surface of Fonterra’s accounts
- China is the key market for New Zealand sheepmeats
- Methane narrative changes with less need for drastic reduction
- MPI needs new thinking and more transparency
- Exchange rate reset will breathe new life to agriculture
- Why is Fonterra so bad at international ventures?
- Sheep meats are in a sweet spot
- Mycoplasma bovis compensation is a mixed bag with big delays and lots of angst
- Mycoplasma bovis: spring testing of bulk milk can be both hit and miss
- Dairy herds may change from black and white to brown and brindle
Category Archives: greenhouse gases
Carbon farming has hidden consequences
New Zealand’s Zero Carbon Bill is based on the assumption that carbon farming through forestry provides a climate-change solution, at least until the arrival of new technologies that allow New Zealand to move away from fossil fuels. In contrast, Environment … Continue reading
Posted in carbon farming, forestry, greenhouse gases, Land and water
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Why methane is different
This is the second of a series of articles discussing some of the difficult issues that have to be understood and resolved in relation to New Zealand’s proposed Zero Carbon Bill. The first article is here For many years, we … Continue reading
