AGRICULTURAL NEWS - New Zealand’s city-centric Labour government is to set a limit on how many dairy cows a farmer can run.
Environment Minister David Parker says that government will implement regulations to reduce the number of cattle farmers are allowed per hectare.
“That won’t be done through a raw cap on cow numbers; it will be done on nutrient limits, the amount of nutrient that can be lost from a farm to a waterway, because it’s not just a dairy cow issue,” he said on Television New Zealand.
Dairy New Zealand figures show that 4,8 million cows, averaging three cows a hectare, produce 20,7 billion litres of milk a year, 3% of the world total.
Dairy is New Zealand’s largest export, at about NZ$14 billion (R122,9 billion).
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