Environment

Brian and Pirkko Gallagher are passionate about sustainable farming. Not because they have to be – because they want to be and know it’s the right thing to do.

Enhancing the production and productivity of New Zealand’s primary sector, while maintaining and improving the quality of the country’s land and water for future generations. That’s the mission of the ‘Our Land and Water’ National Science Challenge.

More than 8,400 people visited 16 Fonterra farms throughout New Zealand on Sunday 11 November to learn about how our farmers work hard to care for their animals, while protecting the waterways and environment.

It’s been a year since Anchor™ Light Proof™ bottles began turning up in SKYCITY hotel rooms, disguised as shampoo, conditioner and body lotion bottles. Fonterra’s partnership with SKYCITY shows what’s possible when businesses work together.

For many, agriculture and its emissions are an easy target in the debate about how the country can meet its obligations to the Paris Agreement.

It’s a beautiful thing when farmers and the community come together and join forces to restore a local jewel of the environment, providing a home for hundreds of native plants and threatened wildlife.

When you talk to Matamata dairy farmers Rod and Sandra McKinnon about environmental sustainability it’s easy to understand why the couple won the 2017/18 Waikato Ballance Farm Environment Awards.

Ian Proudfoot, KPMG’s International's Global Head of Agribusiness based in Auckland, New Zealand, discusses the challenges and opportunities for NZ’s ‘producers’.

Twenty-one farms left reeling after the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake have recently been kitted out with some new technology - part of a programme designed to get their farms back to the same, if not better, state than they were before the big shake.