Dr. Kevin Hanrahan:

We have done scenarios, which, as Dr. Richards stated in his opening statement, have higher and lower levels of agricultural activity. Those were not designed because there is not a policy to make that happen. However, they were done to explore the impact of lower activity levels on the emissions profile of the sector. We have done scenarios in support of the first two carbon budgets. I think we did six scenarios for the Climate Change Advisory Council at the time. Those looked at stable dairy cow numbers and at lower, and much lower dairy cow numbers and equivalent changes in the beef cow herd.

We have looked at scenarios, those informed the setting of the carbon budgets in the first carbon budget cycle and similar analysis was done for the most recent carbon budget cycle setting-----