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Farmer/Growers
Michael Farr, Truestock
Discover new ways to take care of your land and protect your sustainable farming legacy. Put these resources into action and farm with pride, knowing you’re applying the best new knowledge to care for your environment and community.
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Summary
Is regen ag the silver bullet for farming woes?
Regenerative Agriculture has been proposed as a solution not only for transforming on-farm processes, but as a driver of change for the global food system,…
Technical Report
Measuring real time nitrate leaching from a Hawkes Bay onion Field
The primary objective of this project was to prove that successful real time ‘in situ’ nitrate measuring was possible using a nitrate sensor and that…
Technical Report
Application of remote sensing in spatial irrigation scheduling
While the science of calculating crop coefficients using remote sensing has been around since the 1970’s, a robust commercial product is not yet available. This…
Technical Report
A risk assessment approach for prioritising actions in farm environment plans with mahinga kai values
The project co-developed and produced a geospatial tool that is available through a webpage. The beta tool allows users (initially dairy farmers) to identify and…
Summary
If the climate is changing, will land use need to change?
The earth’s surface has gradually been warming up since the beginning of the 20th century – by as much as 1C in some places. One…
Infographic
Sustainability through farmer-citizen connection
Urban visitors and host farmers share a similar vision of sustainable farming, and urban visitors see direct-from-farmer food purchasing as their most impactful sustainable action.…
Guidance
Tech Note: Nitrate-Nitrogen Leaching in Horticulture
Two-page guidance from Ravensdown for nutrient management decisions/practices in horticulture, and the implications of these practices when combined with rainfall events resulting in drainage. Based…
Guidance
Mai te Rangi ki te Whenua, Mai te Whenua ki te Rangi
This literature review identifies 5 actions that support the wellbeing of land, water, and indigenous people from a uniquely Māori perspective. The actions are aimed…
Technical Report
Does the quality of drinking water (bore vs town supply) influence water intake, milk production and animal preferences in dairy cattle?
Water intake and feed intake are closely related in cattle, thus conditions that restrict water intake are likely to influence production. Cattle are sensitive to…
Technical Report
Report on strip-till trial for seed crops
This experiment aimed to investigate if the seed yield of radish can be maintained through the use of strip tillage compared with full cultivation. Radish…
Technical Report
Creating a diverse and sustainable dairy farming and forestry landscape
Analysis of the results and discussion indicates that our hypothesis did not eventuate. There was not the increase in pasture production in the ‘shade’ environment…
Technical Report
Integrating horticultural and arable land use options into hill country farming systems: Site-specific crop options and value chain-based business case
The ‘Integrating Horticultural and Arable Land Use Options into Hill Country Farm Systems’ research project developed a process for crop identification and assessment to help…