New research released by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Simon Upton highlights the impact methane from New Zealand’s livestock […]
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Beef a costly meat – experts respond
The environmental burdens imposed by beef production far exceed the burdens imposed by other types of livestock and plant staples, […]
Continue readingNew livestock virus in UK and Europe, unlikely to reach NZ
A new livestock virus spreading across Europe and panicking farmers in the Norther Hemisphere is unlikely to reach New Zealand […]
Continue readingFoot and mouth disease study questions need for mass culling
Cattle infected with foot and mouth disease (FMD) are only infectious for a brief window of time, around half what […]
Continue readingRural News: Iceland volcano has lessons for NZ dairy
Farmers in Taranaki and Taupo should learn lessons from the effect of the recent eruption in Iceland’s dairy farmers, and […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Groser optimistic after agricultural greenhouse gases meeting
Brian Fallow writes in the New Zealand Herald that the government is pleased with the outcome of the first Global […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Counting burps – it’s a gas
Kathy Marks of the NZ Herald reports on an Australian project in which sheep are to have their burp outputs […]
Continue readingTVNZ/Newstalk ZB: Researchers attempt to silence the lambs
Scientists all over the world are looking into strategies which would reduce the amount of methane produced by livestock. An […]
Continue readingSunday Star Times: New Zealand’s hunger for palm kernel
An investigation by the Sunday Star Time‘s reporter Kim Knight into the importation into New Zealand from Malaysia and Indonesia […]
Continue readingNZ ruminants research in the Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal’s South East Asia bureau chief Patrick Barta, visited New Zealand to report on research efforts underway […]
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