A significant amount of productive sheep and beef farmland has been converted to forestry over recent years, reinforcing the need for limits on carbon farming, according to Beef and Lamb NZ. The organisation, which represents the country’s sheep and beef farmers, commissioned rural consultancy BakerAg to look at the extent of farmland being sold for forestry. READ MORE:* Can farming actually stick to the Climate Change Commission's plan? ROBERT KITCHIN/STUFF Climate Change Minister James Shaw talks about the climate change report and how New Zealand will look in years to come. According to the BakerAg report, 3965ha of whole sheep and beef farms were sold into forestry in 2017, increasing to 20,227ha in 2018 and 36,824ha in 2019.

Source: Stuff August 04, 2021 02:37 UTC