Its danger time at Cancun, the bureaucrats have handed over to the politicians for the final week. Our politicians would still like to sign NZ up to a binding post Kyoto agreement. For NZ’s sake we hope they fail. Our politicians are becoming … [Read more...]

There were 61 submissions received by MAF during the consultation process to determine the emission factors for agriculture’s reporting of carbon emissions. Some points of interest Species exemption MAF proposed exempting Llama, alpaca, ostrich, … [Read more...]

This is another attempt at international agreement on global warming. There is no chance of any agreement and it is an indication of how things have changed that there is almost no media coverage of this. Compared to the sickening display we had at … [Read more...]

This email from Ag ITO Dear Robin Building on the success of previous climate change workshops, Agriculture ITO is running further workshops on behalf of MAF and DairyNZ for all agriculture, horticulture and forestry tutors and teachers to discuss … [Read more...]

Gareth Morgan, a celebrity economist, has labelled farm lobby groups Neanderthals. Such an attack is in keeping with the acerbic, 'grumpy old man' image that he promotes on television, but it is quite unfair. The arguments he uses to support this … [Read more...]

Held in Dargaville earlier this month it attracted a crowd of 4 farmers. I thought the 8 that turned out previously in Dargaville to hear John Boscawen on his ETS tour was a poor turnout, but apparently not. So does this mean farmers don't care too … [Read more...]