Jane Smith: Not Guilty, Sir - Why New Zealand’s Heifers Don’t Deserve the Climate Blame

Among the many satisfying jobs on the farm is shifting our Angus heifers onto fresh pasture. They love it. Tails up, they gallop around for a minute, then it’s heads down — those long, raspy tongues pulling in mouthfuls of lush green feed.

Dr Guy Hatchard: Coming to the Breakfast Table Unannounced

Governments don’t mind exposing people to health risks as long as it appears they are doing something about climate change (even if they aren’t)

The New Zealand Government is deregulating biotechnology. As we have previously reported, the PR logic (if you can call it that) underpinning their bold (idiotic?) move says:

Ian Bradford: What Next? Climate Vaccines for Cows and Climate Injections for Humans!!

In New Zealand, two AgResearch scientists have been working on a vaccine for cows to stop them producing Methane.  They have been wasting time on this for 15 years and  have received $31 million to carry out this research. Money that could have been much better spent on hospitals, or education, or police, and so on. 

Climate Change Commission chairman Rod Carr says Methane reducing technologies have great potential to cut Methane further than farming adaptation can achieve. 

Guest Post: Amy and Hamish Bielski - Our Research down on the Farm - Part Two

Hi. I am Amy. We are the regen farmers who shared a story on this blog of our research into whether methane emissions from our livestock are a real problem or whether it is something caught up in a phenomenon of hyped-up pseudo-science.

This is a sequel.