I see the GHG challenge being met by several different pathways in combination. Improved animal genetics, improved cultivar selection and marginal land being retired from pastoral farming. The land retirement will provide the biggest impact on GHG and ...
You've always had winter milk produced for domestic supply, so winter milking isn't new but the risks are now better understood. And you've now also got global export demand over winter as well - thus a far higher of cows are Autumn calving now as a ...
But you've just uncovered the challange the industry has. To actually efficiently convert nutrient to milk a farm needs scale. The larger farms with feed infrastructure are inherently better at converting inputs to milk as their conversion efficiency is ...
Jeez, that's ballsey of you. It's a split calving herd. This system is fine in small pockets, but the last thing anybody needs is 25% of the national herd calving down in Autumn. Winter milking inherently is a very challenging environmental prospect. ...
Yep, that's exactly right. I can explain in great detail each production system from 1 to 5 (which is how dairying in NZ is actually segmented) but I have no idea what an industrial farm is. Give me your basics, maybe start with LUC, stocking rate and ...
nope , no games. So how do you propose intangible costs get passed onto the consumer?
Alright - I have a SR of 2.9 cows/ha, produce 1180 mskg/ha, use 130 kg N/ha/yr with 5 applications of urea and sustain at an average response rate of 9:1, grow approx 12.5t DM / ha / yr, import 1.1 t DM / ha / yr and have N loss of 36 kg/N/ha/yr. So these ...
Thanks Micky. So if farmers aren't paying for these GHG and waterways damages then who is and how much is it? So what is your suggested solution?
I'm not saying that at all, but costs have values. So what is the value of the cost and how is it currently being funded.
Hi, I'm curious, what defines industrial or intensive dairy farming. And feel free to be as precise and technical as you want. I hear these terms used, but as somebody in the industry it doesn't mean much to anyone without understanding what you consider ...
What's to Spin? You're comment is far too vague to even attempt to rebut. Maybe you let me know what sort of land you think is suitable for dairying and what type of on farm practice you want to see undertaken.
Crop rotation is still a very widely used on farm tactic. I regrass approx 20% per year of the platform and use summer cropping to do this. I can't think of many farmers that don't have some form of cultivation program. You're explanation of the microbial ...
Thank you councillor. But again the answer your giving is a snide remarks and a condescending "I know best" attitude. So what cost is somebody else paying to compensate for the dairy industry? Show me the money. Interesting using coal fired boilers as an ...
Interested in your Firth of Thanes example as a non statutory plan change has just been set for the Firth where the science attributes the water quality issues to sediment of a mostly historic nature. I recollect the main upshot was that 280t of sediment ...
You'd be surprised what I understand and who I am. Snide comments belittle the debate. Stick to the topic. Give me a real world example of these costs please.
No, not what I asked for. Who has paid what and when please. Let's stick to facts please.
You make some good points, but you have to overlay any of your suggestions with a view of how would operate in a regional plan under the resource management act. You've nominated a bunch of good sensible on farm solutions but I can't see the first point to...
Hi Greg, Are you able to point me in direction of where these costs are, who has funded them and when please. Thanks in advance.
As a dairy farmer I have to strongly disagree with this sentiment. I agree that high country farming is different, and the water quality issues are also different. High country contribute the vast majority of sediment and phosphorus in surface waterway. P ...
Absolutely they do. The inspections they are conduct are more frequent, robust and stringently enforced then anything that the Regional Council has every done. I understand you're suspicion and inherent bias that "big = bad". Inside the dairy industry it's...
Hi, I think you'll find that north of Raglan is dry stock and beef country. Most of this area is LUC 6, 7 & 8. This actually highlights a couple of things; How in a single generation New Zealanders can't distinguish farming enterprise differences, or ...
Thanks for posting the Fonterra standards. Anybody even remotely familiar with the dairy industry can recognise that Fonterras own internal supply standards eclipse any regional or national standards set via government. Fonterra aren't the bad guys here. ...
Recent Comments