KPMG is warning that New Zealand’s agriculture industry could be outcompeted within the next five years, as other large producers […]
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Business Day: Big-scale rivals put heat on NZ farmers
Jon Morgan writes in Business Day that New Zealand’s agriculture industry has only a few years before large-scale intensive farming […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Top UK scientist urges NZ to keep open mind on GM
Eloise Gibson writes in the New Zealand Herald that the PM’s chief science advisor Professor Sir Peter Gluckman’s UK counterpart, […]
Continue readingReport: Climate impact of cutting back on cattle questioned
A report presented this week at the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society suggests that despite claims to […]
Continue readingWho’s reporting science-related issues in New Zealand?
New Zealand has some fine science and environment reporters reporting for print, television and radio. Based all over the country, […]
Continue readingODT:Farming confronting technical conundrums
Neal Wallace of the Otago Daily Times writes about warnings that NZ’s pasture-based farming system might have to change. Stephen […]
Continue readingODT: Facing up to global farming reality
Neal Wallance writes in the Otago Dilay Times about fears that food crises could outweigh climate change in the near […]
Continue readingGreener pastures? GM forage crops in New Zealand
ONLINE BRIEFING: Tues 2 March 2010, 10:30 a.m. Drought-resistance, reduced greenhouse gas emissions intensity, superior nutrition for livestock — these […]
Continue readingDom Post: Tagging could unleash farm innovation
Claire McEntee of the Dominion Post talks about a new, controversial tagging scheme for livestock which could eventually boost farm […]
Continue readingDom Post: Wool’s being bred into a thing of the past
Jon Morgan of the Dominion Post reports on Kakatahi farmer David “Tex” Matthews, who is building up a flock of […]
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