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Green moves: Agscent, HSBC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... company that is pioneering non-invasive methane measurement technologies and point-of-care diagnostic breath devices for livestock. "Agscent's innovative technology is empowering farmers and industry stakeholders with real-time, actionable data-supporting ...

New landscapes, natural capital strategy launches

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... launched the new offering, which will invest across sectors including rainfed and irrigated row cropping, horticulture, livestock, and related agriculture infrastructure. It will also seek to access environmental markets such as carbon and biodiversity ...

FarmCap enhances lending solutions for farmers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... investment of $100,000. The investment mandate has a clear target portfolio for type of farm exposure, across broadacre, livestock, irrigated cropping, horticulture, dairy and other, FarmCap said. Banks are often unable to fund future growth, expansion ...

Australia's ecosystems get a dollar value

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... environment statistics Jonathon Khoo said this figure represents the estimated amount farmers saved by feeding their livestock things like grass growing on their land. Meanwhile, water provisioning - the supply of naturally occurring surface water taken ...

Green moves: Fremantle Seaweed, Impact&ble, Emmi, Petuna Aquaculture

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... ' former head of stewardship, Mayleah House, has moved over to a company that aims to cut methane from ruminant livestock using seaweed. Ethical Partners closed shop in August after seven years, selling its 15% stake in ACL and 15% stake in NobleOak. ...

Unloved sector poised to reap rewards

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... investing in production efficiency, energy efficiency, carbon sequestration in croplands and grasslands, and reducing livestock-based protein through dietary shifts, would reduce emissions from the sector by 45%. It would also combat poor nutrition ...

Flawed carbon credits add to business risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2024  |  NEWS
... planting trees; they include land management changes that promote regrowth of native vegetation, largely by reducing livestock numbers. But this form of carbon offset may not mitigate the actual amount of carbon they claim to represent. This raises questions ...

Nearly a quarter of Australian bank debt has nature-related risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... that banks that are invested in agriculture, property, resources, and energy, are most exposed to nature-related risk. Livestock agriculture, with $47 billion of outstanding loans from leading Australian banks, is the subsector responsible for the biggest ...

Record number of soil ACCUs issued for Queensland graziers

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... atmosphere, but their beef is carbon negative (climate positive) to the tune of 6.6t [tonnes] of CO2 buried for every tonne of livestock carried, after accounting for all emissions. "The land management techniques used by Carly and Grant have added 47,000 ...

Investors in hot seat over impact of 50-degree day

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2023  |  NEWS
... about supply chains. The farmer is telling the story about the impact on fresh fruit and veg and how heat is impacting livestock. The health worker is demonstrating what the science tells us - every degree of temperature increase has an increase in mortality ...
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