Why New Zealand may have to stop at 6.48m dairy cows

With New Zealand’s new Agriculture Minister saying his country “may have got close to the maximum number of cows”, and countries like Ireland coming under increasing pressure to decouple agricultural growth from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the question of who will feed growing global populations gets more relevant by the day, writes Stephen Cadogan.

New Zealand is the No 1 dairy exporter in the world, but the new Agriculture Minister, Damien O’Connor, says cutting livestock herds is one of the things that has to be considered, to meet their climate change obligations.