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Advice, Environment
Calculator helping red meat farmers understand farm emissions profile
7 February 2022
Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Calculator is one of the tools that has been developed to help farmers meet the sector’s commitment to reducing GHG emissions.
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Environment, The Experts
Keeping greenhouse gas management in our hands
7 February 2022
He Waka Eke Noa was set up when the sector organisations pitched that Government, Māori and the sector bodies, on behalf of farmers and growers, work together to develop a plan to manage and reduce on-farm greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Kelly Forster, Programme Manager, explains what that means for farmers.
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Environment
An update from Overseer
17 November 2021
There has been significant interest in the government’s response to the peer review of Overseer and it’s fair to say the Overseer team has received a few enquiries from farmers, rural professionals and regional councils since the report’s release in August.
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Environment
EcoPond™ - Farm Dairy Effluent (FDE) System
16 November 2021
Ravensdown and Lincoln University have discovered a way for dairy farmers to cut their farm’s methane emissions by about 5%. They’ve found an effluent treatment – an additive used in drinking water treatment – can mitigate over 99% of the methane produced from an effluent pond.
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