N.Ireland
Farmers in New Zealand protest against agri emissions tax
Farmers in New Zealand have engaged in nationwide protests today (Thursday, October 20), against proposals by the government to introduce...
Emissions
N.Ireland
How will the dairy sector reduce its carbon footprint?
College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) senior advisor, Alan Agnew, has highlighted steps that dairy farmers can take...
N.Ireland
FAO: Animal health policies key in measuring emissions
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has urged governments to develop stronger approaches to evaluating the...
Agri-Business
Video: Dutch police fire shots during farmer tractor protest
Police in the Netherlands have confirmed that a number of shots were fired during a tractor protest in the north...
Agri-Business
Livestock methane-reducing product gets commercial contract in Oz
CH4 Global Inc. has announced the first commercial sale and supply of its Asparagopsis-based methane-reducing product for ruminant animals to...
Environment
New Zealand to consider separate farm-level levy for methane emissions
The Primary Sector Climate Action Parternship, He Waka Eke Noa, has recommended a farm-level split-gas levy to reduce emissions and sequester...
Agri-Business
New Zealand accelerates efforts to lower agricultural emissions
The New Zealand government has committed NZ$710 million (€430 million) over the next four years to speed up efforts to...
Agri-Business
Study shows 11% methane drop in supplemented dairy cows
A new study has shown that cumulative methane output was reduced by almost 11% in dairy cows that received a...
Dairy
Fonterra to expand trial on reducing methane emissions to more farms
New Zealand dairy cooperative, Fonterra, is to expand a trial which uses seaweed to reduce methane emissions from cows. In...
Beef
Lack of emissions disclosures among animal protein producers – FAIRR
New data from global investor coalition, FAIRR's Protein Producer Index has shown that only 18% of global meat and dairy...
Agri-Business
DSM to open methane-reducing additive production plant in Scotland
Royal DSM, a global company active in health, nutrition and bioscience, has announced that it is planning to implement large...
Dairy
CAFRE highlights the value of carbon calculators
The College of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (CAFRE) has confirmed that carbon calculators can be used to estimate the...
Agri-Business
Brazil approves methane-reducing livestock feed additive
Royal DSM, a global company active in nutrition, health and sustainable living, has received regulatory approval from the Brazilian and...
Beef
Cattle ‘toilet trained’ by researchers in bid to cut emissions
A team of researchers from New Zealand and Germany say they have successfully "toilet trained" cattle, which they argue will...
Beef
Australia leads the way with world’s first lower emission steak
Australian company FutureFeed has served up a world’s first this month, dishing up sustainable seaweed-fed lower emission steak with celebrity...
Agri-Business
‘Cows are the new coal’ according to global investor group
A global investor coalition and former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon are calling on all G20 nations to disclose specific targets...
Agri-Business
Achieving a 70% reduction in ammonia emissions with a circular shed system
A new shed system for separating mineral flows and converting emissions into value has been unveiled in the form of...
Beef
Study: Climate impact of grass-fed cattle herds ‘may be overestimated’
Direct emissions of a powerful greenhouse gas from certain pasture types are lower than previously thought – meaning the climate...
