Agricultural emissions include methane emissions from burping cows and sheep, whose digestive systems produce methane when breaking down vegetation. The system of farmgate pricing has been worked on since 2019 after calls from the sector to have a farmgate emissions pricing system that would reward climate-friendly farmers. Ardern rejected suggestions the primary sector wouldn't look favourably on the proposal, as it had been formed with its input. The farmer-funded DairyNZ said there was still work to do on emissions pricing for agriculture. Initially, farmers were set to be folded into the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) if insufficient progress was made on farmgate pricing.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 11, 2022 03:51 UTC