Farmers held back on green changes
7 December 2018
A lack of knowledge is hindering farmers from reducing biological emissions from livestock despite a study showing they can be cut by 10% if every farmer adopts known best practice management.
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Targets too tough
7 December 2018
Livestock farmers need a greenhouse gas-reducing silver bullet to survive inclusion in the Emissions Trading Scheme because available mitigation measures are inadequate to meet reduction targets.
US sanctions hit kiwi exports
7 December 2018
Exporters of primary products are being forced to fall into line with United States President Donald Trump’s efforts to squeeze Iran’s economy with ever-tighter sanctions.
The dairy industry, in particular, has highly rated Iran with more than a billion dollars in sales there since 2012.
Pamu breaks ranks with farmers
7 December 2018
Claims Landcorp is taking a leadership role in advocating new agricultural taxes in its submission to the Tax Working Group ring hollow for National Party agriculture spokesman Nathan Guy.
Scales hikes interim dividend
7 December 2018
Scales Corp will pay a bigger interim dividend than a year ago and says it might exceed annual earnings guidance with all its units tracking ahead of 2017.
Venture improves exporters’ hand
6 December 2018
A new freight venture aims to give exporters more leverage around the negotiating table with an increasingly smaller number of shipping companies servicing the South Pacific.
Bearing 360 is a joint venture freight company established between big wood products company Oji Fibre and freight solutions business Netlogix.
Farmers need more gas know-how
6 December 2018
Biological emissions from livestock can be reduced by 10% if every farmer adopts known best practice management, a new report says.
Smith keen to work with farmers
6 December 2018
New primary industries director-general Ray Smith is a self-acclaimed passionate Kiwi who wants his fifth generation New Zealand children to experience a bit of the NZ he grew up with. He talked to Annette Scott on a visit to meet farmers in Ashburton.
A move to the city
6 December 2018
In a grass market season like this one Stu and Sue Thomson would usually be flat-out trading lambs on their North Canterbury farm.
Not this summer.
Dairy to pay bulk of M bovis costs
5 December 2018
The dairy industry will wear most of the industry’s share of the cost of the Mycoplasma bovis eradication programme.
