For the past 15 years, farmers have generally tackled compliance, environmental and social problems by themselves, occasionally engaging the help of a consultant. However, the issues arising in our environment is not from a single activity but a collection of activities. The Essential Freshwater Package has initiated a change, with focus on catchment context and catchment management.
Read MoreWhat would you do? Due to prolonged drought, the only feed you have on your farm is a few paddocks of kale. You have multiple classes of stock to feed and not enough break fences or space to feed them all in-situ.
Read MoreSam shares how hill country farmers can use pine forestry to optimise their farming business and do right by the environment.
Read MoreThe NZ Peru Dairy Support Project has been chosen as one of 20 projects to feature on an interactive map highlighting livestock and climate resilience innovations.
Read MoreTAG consultants, Dave Lucock and Sam Mander, provided the rural professional expertise in the Our Land and Water research project run by Lincoln University, titled “Canterbury Farmers’ and Rural Professionals’ Perception of Drone Use in Environmental Management”.
Read MoreIn the past two years the changes in regulation has created uncertainty for farmers – this uncertainty isn’t new in farming history in New Zealand. Amelia reflects on New Zealand’s agricultural history and the challenges that farmers have overcome.
Read MoreDrought is a common word in farmers vocabulary these days, especially those farming on the east coast of New Zealand, they know all to well the impact of drought and now the ever-increasing frequency of drought. Our changing climate is presenting us with more severe droughts for often longer periods of time and in areas of the country that haven’t historically seen droughts.
Read MoreIn recognition of the potential impact that climate change can have on supply chains, businesses are increasingly seeking to understand and report climate risks. In some cases, it is mandatory to disclose climate risks. Zespri has published its first climate change report - with the goal of qualitatively determining the level of risk that climate change poses to kiwifruit production in growing regions outside of NZ that Zespri sources fruit from i.e. mainly Italy, France, Japan and Korea.
Read MoreThe Climate Change Commission has released its final advice to the Government, laying out a carbon-cutting roadmap that could change the way we live.
The 418 pages of final advice would have been a colossal undertaking, building from the immense 15,000+ submissions that were received on the draft advice (earlier this year), to meet our Paris Accord target of net zero emissions by 2050.
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