New Zealand Pastural Farming Climate Research

Promoting livestock methane emissions as sustainable and not responsible for global warming and advocating fairness for agricultural producers under any carbon emission laws or regulations.

John Boscawen

By

I had a productive meeting with John Boscawen from the ACT Party last Monday night. The ACT party is farmers only hope of progress in our case against being the only farmers in the world hit with the injustice of being taxed for no good reason … [Read more...]

Agriculture & Copenhagen

By

It is a huge relief that Copenhagen is over with no binding agreement. At Kyoto our negotiators did NZ a disservice when they signed up to the system of carbon dioxide equivalents with its global warming potentials which were nonsense then and they … [Read more...]

Animal Respiration & Global Warming

By

Two World Bank environmental advisors Robert Goddard and Jeff Anhang put out a report claiming eating meat was having far more of an impact on global warming than was officially recognised. They argue that instead of producing 18% of world emissions … [Read more...]

Climate gate

By

Global consumption of meat and dairy products has doubled in the last 30 years and the methane concentration in the atmosphere has not increased in that time. This statement is indisputable; factual and certainly questions what they say about … [Read more...]

Daylight Robbery is Fairer Mr Key

By

John Key's newest tactic to silence farmers is to proffer himself a s their  saviour by claiming his scheme is only going to cost $3000 per year per farmer while labour's was going to cost $30000 per year in the year 2030 This presumes we are not … [Read more...]

Farmers do u-turn on carbon tax

By

This is the headline that got me riled up but as is so often the case the headline does not reflect the actual story. Federated Farmers u-turn is not really a u-turn and it is not over the ETS or a tax on carbon emissions as such it is on the FART … [Read more...]

Back From the Brink!

By

With no agreement on the table for the Copenhagen conference the Kyoto agreement will finish in 2012 and nothing will replace it. This is great news for New Zealand and agriculture. This is because the chance of any binding international agreement in … [Read more...]

Copenhagen

By

The chances of anything being signed at Copenhagen were never good and thankfully it seems what slim chance there was is getting slimmer. The US is unlikely to get its emissions scheme through its Senate and nor is Australia. It seems NZ is one of … [Read more...]