While the primary sector has its challenges, science and agriculture must be given a chance to solve them. Recently the vice-president of Federated Farmers, William Rolleston, not only attended a Green Party mini-conference on climate change but managed to return with all of his limbs intact. For all of the spin about agriculture and the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), farmers are in it as much as you are. The only difference is whether farm biological emissions should be in or out. In every other country, putting farm biological emissions in an ETS type-framework is as alien as Richie McCaw donning the green and gold and singing Advance Australia Fair. Take this golden Daily Mail headline...
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