New Zealand farmers hit streets to protest cow-burp tax plan

(Dean Purcell/New Zealand Herald via AP)

Farmers across New Zealand have taken to the streets on their tractors to protest government plans to tax cow burps and other greenhouse gas emissions, although the rallies were smaller than expected.

Lobby group Groundswell New Zealand helped organise more than 50 protests in towns and cities across the country, the biggest involving a few dozen vehicles.