by Editor | Feb 1, 2023 | News
Hadee Thompson-Morrison, University of Canterbury; Brett Robinson, University of Canterbury, and Sally Gaw, University of Canterbury Each year, New Zealand imports about 2 million tonnes of palm kernel expeller (PKE), a by-product of palm-oil processing in Indonesia...
by Editor | Jan 26, 2023 | News
New polling shows growing public support for calls to cut fertiliser, regulate the dairy industry to protect water and, while not yet a majority, lower dairy cow numbers, says Greenpeace Aotearoa senior campaigner Steve Abel. The polling results released today by...
by Editor | Oct 27, 2022 | Opinion
Glen Herud, founder of the Happy Cow Milk Company, faces up to one of the industry’s toughest questions: why are retired dairy cows culled instead of left to live their natural lives? Why are dairy cows culled? This is one of the most common questions we...
by Editor | Oct 19, 2022 | News
Ethical investor Southern Pastures, the country’s largest institutional dairy investment fund, has been judged to be a Responsible Investment Leader for the seventh year running. It remains the only organisation from New Zealand’s agriculture and food sectors to ever...
by Vincent Heeringa | Oct 12, 2022 | Opinion
We live in a schizophrenic country. On Tuesday, the primary sector raged against the government’s response to He Waka Eke Noa, the industry-government-Maori consortium charged with creating a mechanism to reduce agricultural emissions. Sheep and beef farmers say it...
