Concern growing about the carbon farming threat to sheep and beef sector

Concern growing about the carbon farming threat to sheep and beef sector
New research identifies options for strategically managing the increased planting. (Image: Supplied)
Rebecca Howard
More voices are calling for urgent national policy to ensure the increase in carbon farming to meet New Zealand’s climate change obligations doesn’t come at the expense of rural communities.Former Hastings mayor and National party MP Lawrence Yule is calling for a more strategic approach to planting trees and outlines policy areas for urgent investigation in a Green Paper funded by Local Government NZ, 16 individual councils and  Beef + Lamb NZ.According to the paper, the rapidly rising price of carbon in the emissions trading...

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