Environment

Most New Zealand farms are very efficient grass factories, some are treeless, grass deserts, but all could be made slightly more productive by planting some fodder trees, Peter Arthur writes.

A project in Southland is mapping soils and landscapes to provide leaching and emissions data to help farmers come up with plans to meet their own and government-sanctioned environmental targets.

By Lynda Gray.

There’s a new tool out to assess whether or not areas of farmed land include ‘official’ wetlands.

An expert scientist warns against looking at overseas models when searching for soil solutions. Jo Cuttance writes.

A scheme to return kiwi to farms to the west of Wellington is on target. Sarah Horrocks reports.

East Coast farmer Peter Arthur loves his oaks, and he’s planted many over the years.

To keep the global average temperature well below 2deg C above pre-industrial levels, while pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5deg C.

Emissions offsets allow polluters to do bad things to the planet, as long as they plant a tree to remove the guilt. By Peter Andrew.

The Government has released its proposals for agricultural emissions charges as part of climate change mitigations. Joanna Grigg reports on the proposals and their conflicts with the industry’s He Waka Eke Noa suggestions.