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Scientists clash over New Zealand beef and lamb carbon claims

Scientists clash over New Zealand beef and lamb carbon claims >More in © Adobe Stock The New Zealand government has clashed with a scientific paper funded by the country’s red meat levy body that claimed its sheep and beef farms are close to carbon neutral. A report from the Ministry for the Environment says carbon sequestered on New Zealand’s beef and sheep farms is 63% lower than that stated in the peer-reviewed Auckland University of Technology (AUT) study that was published last year.   The ministry said this is because carbon losses from vegetation and drained soils were factored in and “more appropriate” sequestration rates for natural forest and scrub/shrub were used.

Govt study casts doubt on claims sheep and beef farms near carbon-neutral

Govt study casts doubt on claims sheep and beef farms near carbon-neutral Newshub 1/03/2021 James Fyfe © Getty A study last year found sheep and beef farms were offsetting the bulk of their on-farm emissions. A new Government report has challenged the findings of a study released last year showing New Zealand sheep and beef farms are already offsetting the bulk of their agricultural emissions.  The Ministry for the Environment (MfE) report found rather than meat farms coming close to being completely carbon neutral, as the previous research found, the true figure was much lower. Last year s peer-reviewed study was led by Dr Bradley Case at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and commissioned by Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ). It concluded the woody vegetation on sheep and beef farms across the country was offsetting on-farm agricultural emissions by between 63 and 118 percent.

Farmer s $200,000 lesson from Hawke s Bay drought

MIKE HEYDON/Stuff Last summer’s drought was among the worst to hit the Hawke’s Bay region in recent history. (File photo) In a normal season, when it got dry we would be able to sell store cattle at the saleyards, but we had to carry an extra 50 to 60 steers through. If not for friends and baleage supplied through the Government-funded feed co-ordination service, Goldstone’s farm “would have been in serious trouble”. The service helps connect farmers who are short of feed with available sources of supplement, such as silage and hay. In Goldstone’s case, he was able to source 100 round bales of grass silage from the Waikato and the South Island.

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