Look out for us on the Country Channel on Sky. It is channel 99 and I am told that if you subscribe to it you can get a tax deduction on some of your Sky subscription. Check this with your accountant as I am happy to give advice on livestock carbon … [Read more...]
Nitrous Oxide & DCD
Tuesdays NZ Herald carried this article called 'Farm Emissions Breakthrough'. It is about DCD and reducing nitrous oxide emissions Have a read and then read our press release. (the link is below )What we did not say in our press release is that the … [Read more...]
Revised carbon emissions for agriculture
Revised carbon liability for agriculture The Ministry of the Environment has released its review of New Zealand’s carbon emissions for the year 2008. It has updated our forecast carbon emissions for the Kyoto commitment for the period 2008- 2012. … [Read more...]
No voice for Pastural Farming Climate Research at the Beehive
The special select committee to review the emission trading scheme has refused to hear the submission by Pastural Farming Climate Research Inc. They site the number of submissions as being the reason. 278 submissions were received of which just over … [Read more...]
The Kyoto Folly – Lawnmower versus Sheep
New Zealand’s Emission Trading Scheme was devised to comply with the Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol was devised to combat global warming. The idea is that a country’s carbon emissions are measured, or guessed, in line with clear rules laid out in … [Read more...]
Northland Agricultural Field Days
Pastural Farming Climate Research was launched at the Northland Agricultural Field Days on the 27th February.2009. The society was formed to counter the misinformation about agricultural emissions and the incorrect and … [Read more...]
Sunday TVNZ
On behalf of all who were throwing shoes at the tv on Sunday night as the Sunday programme described agriculture as the big polluter we have written to John Hudson who was the correspondent on the item. The basis of our correspondence was; that … [Read more...]
Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions Letter
To Whom It May Concern It has been reported that agriculture is responsible for 50% of greenhouse gas emissions. What has not been reported is what percentage of NZ’s greenhouse gases are removed from the atmosphere by pastoral farming. Any carbon … [Read more...]
COWS BELCH METHANE; SO WHAT?
The game in town seems to be to bash the poor old ruminant for threatening the survival of the planet by belching methane into an overloaded and polluted atmosphere that is on the brink of total collapse under the weight of all this carbon. It is … [Read more...]
Good hard working salt of the earth NZers do not deserve these attacks
I have just spent four hours with a lovely couple in their early 60’s who have had only two days away from their dairy farm in eight years. They work hard for every cent they have ever earned; they have a mortgage to pay and bills each month, mud in … [Read more...]