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Some Environment Southland councillors say high quality pastoral land needs to be protected from carbon farming.

Statewide legislation has led to a big rise in food donation and composting. But the trickiest part of the equation—separating food from its packaging—continues to cause headaches.

NZ Pork chief executive David Baines told parliament’s primary production select committee on Thursday that a phase out of the crates was a “significant concern” for the industry. “Internationally there is no better practice that has been proven to work than some use of the farrowing crates in mating stalls,” he said. “If we were to have to move away from the current use of farrowing crates for indoor farms we estimate up to 60,000 piglets would die every year.” ANDY JACKSON/STUFF Taranaki pig farm manager Leon White discusses the controversy around indoor farrowing system. B...

The council heard at a hearings meeting last week that there had not been a clear mandate from submitters about which rates increase was favourable. Chairman Nicol Horrell said he thought there would be more submissions that would say no to a 20 per cent rates rise, and he favoured the higher option, calling it ‘’a reset”. It had been a difficult long-term plan, and it was time for leadership, he said. Baird raised the issue that some submissions, such as those from Federated Farmers and Forest and Bird, were made on behalf of a group of submitters, and not just one person.

FEMA To Put More Resources Into Pop-Up, Mobile COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics The Biden administration is stepping up efforts to make the COVID-19 vaccine more accessible for more Americans, especially in rural areas. As part of the push, the White House said FEMA will put more resources into pop-up clinics and mobile clinics. The goal is for 70% of U.S. adults to have at least one shot by July 4. Vaccine recipient Ida Jeffries recently went to a pop-up clinic in a rural part of eastern Maryland, and she called it a blessing. “I don't drive, so I had to wait for somebody to pick me up," Jef...