Farming
Schoolkids put buzz back into biodiversity on a dairy farm
Young school students plant habitat for an endangered skink and learn heaps about biodiversity at a nature reserve on a North Canterbury farm.
Live exports a bad look for NZ, port workers union says
The Maritime Union also has zero faith in government assurances of a gold standard for ships used for the trade. Audio
Nature literate kids
Young school students plant habitat for an endangered skink and learn heaps about biodiversity at a nature reserve on a North Canterbury dairy farm. Audio
RNZ's climate correspondent on greenhouse gases
Eloise Gibson talks agriculture's role in the production of greenhouse gases, what people get right and wrong about methane, and explains exactly what the ETS is. Audio
Full Episode for Friday 22 November 2024
This week Country Life's on a dairy farm where school kids are planting habitat for the endangered Canterbury Grass Skink and learning about biodiversity and pest control. Audio
Getting the jump on wallabies in the Bay of Plenty
How are efforts to control wallabies in the Bay of Plenty working?
Govt accused of betraying trust over live exports
The government has always vowed to reinstate live exports by sea, which was banned by the previous Labour government.
In a step towards reducing greenhouse gases, farm begins methane testing
The facility will test which cattle are the most efficient converters of feed into growth - as well as which ones emit less methane.
Shutting Timaru's Smithfield meatworks to cost Alliance more than $51m
The cost of shutting its Timaru meat works is costing the troubled red meat co-operative more than $51m.
