Co-founder of the Methane Science Accord and South Otago farmer Hamish Bielski joins Jaspreet Boparai and Don Nicolson to share his agricultural sector views, especially on the politicisation of the methane molecule, and sheep breeding programs.

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Extract: Farmers with experience and breeding knowledge are deeply concerned about the pressure to breed for low methane sheep traits and its effects on other important traits they have been pursuing over the last 100 years.
AgResearch predicts that choosing this trait could cost 10 to 15% per year sacrifice in growth, reproduction, survival and adult weights. Physical changes to sheep could also mean we end up with an inferior ewe flock ….

So this is a this is a this is the tragedy, really, Jamie. And again this is where politics of fear is taking more replacement science facts. So he hasn't bothered to vaguely understand the you know who's using outdated metrics. Even the IPCC has has discredited the metrics that these using.

Owen Jennings, Ex-MP & Chairman Of The Methane Science Accord joins Jaspreet Boparai and Don Nicholson on RCR to discuss on the current state of play for NZ’s politics, why methane science is flawed & his eulogy for Dr Jock Allison. Including updates on the Accord’s plans for 2024

Jaspreet Boparai and Don Nicolson are joined by Owen Jennings, Former Federated Farmers National President: More from the ‘Methane Science Accord' Former Federated Farmers national president and MP Owen Jennings returns to RCR to share more about the Methane Science Accord, demanding the truth is told about the actual impacts of methane emissions on the environment. 

This week on Groundswell Radio: Peter Williams chats with Groundswell co-founder Bryce McKenzie and then North Otago farmer and founder of the Methane Science Accord, Jane Smith on AgriZero.

The current proposed ruminant methane tax could see around 20 per cent of sheep and beef farms go out of business, says Otago farmer, environmentalist and co-chairperson of the newly founded Methane Science Accord, Jane Smith.
“It’s generic, overbearing and economically quite treacherous, particularly to farming operations that are flourishing to a lesser degree economically.”

South Otago regenerative farmer Hamish Bielski, a founder of the Methane Science Accord, joins Paul Brennen to discuss their call for zero taxing of ruminant methane.

RCR; Owen Jennings expresses his frustration with the demonisation of methane and the establishment of the Methane Science Accord. He argues that methane is often unfairly targeted, and he believes that the science surrounding methane's impact on climate change is not being accurately represented. The Methane Science Accord was created to address these concerns and promote a more balanced understanding of methane's role in climate change.

HAMISH BIELSKI joins PETER WILLIAMS, to discuss the Methane Science Accord, the science and the policy that is negatively impacting farmers, rural communities and food production.