This week I have farmer Andrew Stewart joining me on the show for a yarn.
The proposed government plan which is the least palatable is a proposed processor levy or tax.
“While the sheep and beef sector has already exceeded the 11 per cent below 1990 goal with its 19 per cent below 1990 emissions, it will need to maintain emissions reductions if the Government’s wider goal of reducing New Zealand’s emissions to 50 per cent of 1990 levels by 2050 is to be achieved.
There is a wealth of information about this subject available to those interested in learning more, and I encourage all of us to learn as much as we can.
To suggest to me, as a sheep and beef farmer, that this farm and therefore my family are polluters makes me sick to the stomach.
I can only hope that you all as leaders listen to pleas such as this and take into consideration the effects your actions will have.
Wholesale land-use change into exotic forestry for farming carbon and the ETS needs to be reigned in, and you can catch previous episodes which go into detail on this and there will be more in the future.
James Shaw and his fellow travellers follow MSM, Al Gore, Michael Mann and Naomi Oreskes to the letter.
we had the Stefan-Boltzmann and Wein radiation laws and the work of Svante Arhennius, the Swedish Nobel Prize winning scientist.
Many of these farms are doing well and if not there is allways the option to get out and let someone else have a go.
Looking at the photos of his farm , he has indeed got some nice trees growing there.