Twenty farm interns take the first step in their farming career
Twenty motivated farm interns enrolled in the Whangārei A&P Farm Intern programme for 2021 to gain hands-on experience...
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You’re invited to the online New Zealand Meat Board Annual Meeting
The New Zealand Meat Board (NZMB) is an essential part of the puzzle to ensuring farmers get optimal returns on beef and...
Q&A: Sandra Matthews on attending B+LNZ’s Annual Meeting & Showcase
We talk to Sandra Matthews, a sheep and beef farmer from Gisborne about her takeaways from attending previous B+LNZ...
Food & Fibre CoVE launched as part of the Government’s vocational educational reform
The Food & Fibre Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) was officially launched last week as part of the vocational...
B+LNZ: MfE report on sequestration an important contribution to conversation
Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) says the Ministry for the Environment’s (MfE) report 'Net emissions and removals from...
Environmental enhancement is good for business
The Miller family from Southland were a New Zealand Farm Assurance-Plus programme pilot farm. They will be hosting a...
Warmer autumn could worsen feed deficits in some regions
Despite recent rain in many areas, farmers in regions such as Northland, Gisborne, Hawkes Bay, Marlborough and South...
Preparing the ram team for mating
If farmers haven’t done so already, now is the time they should be giving their ram team a health-check to ensure they...
Learning lessons from New Zealand’s response to Mycoplasma bovis
An independent review of the Mycoplasma bovis Programme is being carried out to identify lessons that can be learned...
Update on environment work
We wanted to update you on some key areas we’re working on in the environment space – including getting the essential...
Beef + Lamb New Zealand disappointed about emissions trading reform legislation
The emissions trading reform legislation passed yesterday (16 June) will not lead to a reduction in emissions, but...
Emissions Trading Scheme ineffective without limits on exotic forestry offsets by fossil fuel emitters
The Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) will be ineffective in reducing New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions without having...
**Review of methane contribution a step in the right direction
Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) has welcomed Climate Change Minister James Shaw’s request to the Climate Change...
Agricultural organisations unite to call for IPCC to consider GWP*/GWP-we for greenhouse gas emissions
JOINT STATEMENT: Climate change is one of the world’s most urgent challenges and farmers are amongst the first to see...
Beef + Lamb New Zealand unveils new report on shaping the future of the red meat sector
Exporting New Zealand’s food culture to the world, maximising the value from co-products, and increasing the design of...
Beef + Lamb New Zealand will continue to push for science based methane targets
Bipartisan support for the Zero Carbon Act will provide certainty for farmers about the framework for emissions, but...
New research shows perils of mass forestry planting on productive sheep and beef land
Large scale conversion of sheep and beef farms to forestry as a result of the Zero Carbon Bill will have a significant...
Beef + Lamb New Zealand calls for science-based changes to Zero Carbon Bill
Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) is urging the Government to adopt a science-based approach to changes to the Climate...
B+LNZ calls for critical changes in methane approach in Zero Carbon Bill
New Zealand’s sheep and beef sector is deeply concerned over the proposed treatment of methane and targets in the Zero...