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Taxes on Methane.I used to love LANDLINE it showed the ‘farmers, their families’ their hard work that lead to healthy grounds, healthy stock, healthy food and produce being replaced by ‘ecologists’, using drones to map dams on properties, their depth, capacity and volumes of water within and whether water is being stolen from community and personal dams on their properties, which they built themselves. the amount of taxing afforded to each and every farm holder along with tree seeders to maximise the effect on the farms reducing ‘Climate Change’, as yet the Australian farmer has not had further taxing on his or her produce, but it is coming, young ecologists straight out of college, in neat clean well pressed uniforms with badges as authority telling the farmer how to manage and improve their properties, to reduce their carbon footprint. We use to start at the bottom and work ourselves to the top from hard earned experience working the land.I see more taxing on the wind, from farms to users like you and me, a humble glass of milk, cheese, butter and even the cost of ‘meats’ to the dinner plate, there was no mention of plant based foods for our vegetarians or vegans, this may never happen when the latter is trying to wean us of all meats, it seems I need to stop worrying about the land, turn off Landline watch something else, it is like putting your hands over your ears while the young experts that have never slipped in cow dung or had to wipe it off their boots, before entering the house are in control selling their ‘verbal diarrhoea’ to alter the land and our hip pockets, I still remember when a visit to the farm as a boy, thrilled me to see where it all came from, my first visit to a ‘Rotolactor’ and how our farm lands were in such fine hands by a different expert, the farmer.It may need a little more pressure on the market by us the consumer over what we will choose to eat and put on our table, NO wait a minute that is already happening. With luck our new age youngsters will slip up in their own manure.Good luck ladies on trying to give your children a healthy balanced diet.Climate change: New Zealand's plan to tax cow and sheep burpsBy Peter HoskinsBBC News9 June 2022New Zealand has unveiled a plan to tax sheep and cattle burps in a bid to tackle one of the country's biggest sources of greenhouse gases.It would make it the first nation to charge farmers for the methane emissions from the animals they keep.New Zealand is home to just over five million people, along with around 10 million cattle and 26 million sheep.Almost half the country's total greenhouse gas emissions come from agriculture, mainly methane.However, agricultural emissions have previously not been included in New Zealand's emissions trading scheme, which has been criticised by those calling for the government to do more to stop global warming."There is no question that we need to cut the amount of methane we are putting into the atmosphere, and an effective emissions pricing system for agriculture will play a key part in how we achieve that," New Zealand's climate change minister James Shaw said.Australia methane emissions hugely under-reportedMorrisons trials gas-busting seaweed diet for cowsCurbing methane emissions will 'buy us time'Under the proposal farmers will have to pay for their gas emissions from 2025.The plan also includes incentives for farmers who reduce emissions through feed additives, while planting trees on farms could be used to offset emissions.Andrew Hoggard - who is a dairy farmer and the national president of Federated Farmers of New Zealand - told the BBC that he broadly approved of the proposals."We've been working with the government and other organisations on this for years to get an approach that won't shut down farming in New Zealand, so we've signed off on a lot of stuff we're happy with.""But you know, like all of these types of agreements with many parties involved, there's always going to be a couple of dead rats you have to swallow," he added.Mr Hoggard also highlighted that the fine details of the plan's rollout have not yet been agreed."There are still the nuts and bolts to be hammered out, like who actually implements the scheme, so there's still stuff to work through with the government."The money raised from the scheme will be invested in research, development and advisory services for farmers, the country's environment ministry said.Last month, New Zealand's finance minister committed NZ$2.9bn (£1.5bn; $1.9bn) for initiatives to tackle climate change, which would be funded by an emissions trading system that taxed polluters.Meanwhile on Thursday, investors managing $14tn of assets urged the United Nations to create a global plan to make the agriculture sector sustainable.In a letter to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation's director-general - which was first reported by the Reuters news agency - the FAIRR Initiative said the agency was best-placed to take the lead on creating a road-map to curb one of the biggest sources of climate damaging emissions.Methane is the second most common greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide (CO2). It is one of the most potent and responsible for a third of current warming from human activities. Individual methane molecules have a more powerful warming effect on the atmosphere than single CO2 molecules.At last year's COP26 environmental conference in Glasgow the US and the EU agreed to cut emissions of the gas by 30% by 2030. More than 100 countries, including New Zealand, have also signed up to the initiative.How is methane emitted?Around 40% of CH4 comes from natural sources such as wetlands but the bigger share now comes from a range of human activities, ranging from agriculture, such as cattle and rice production, to rubbish dumps.