Innovation, Best Practice and Sustainability in New Zealand’s Primary Sector
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The benefits of robotic milking for a dairy farming couple.
Evaluating the impacts of deferred grazing on hill country pastures.
Dragon fruit varieties developed for growing international markets.
Growing seaweed to help remediate polluted water at Agrisea.
Dung beetles rebalancing pastoral farming systems.
Understanding dairy production systems on peat soils in Waikato
Subterranean clover management on a dryland hill country station
Identifying the causes of variability in onion crops at the Centre for Land and Water's MicroFarm in Hastings
New technology reduces nitrogen losses from dairy farms
Future-proofing through automation in a pine seedling nursery
The Hatuma Lime Company is a third generation family agricultural lime business that had to re-invent itself in the 1950s and 1960s by marketing a product that they have called Hatuma Dicalcic Phosphate. It was a far-sighted move on the part of then general manager, Joe Topp.
A coating on urea pellets reduces excess leaching of nitrogen on pasture
Rearing and promoting the use of dung beetles in pastoral farming
Seaweed is harvested and processed for use in horticulture and pastoral farming
A topdressing company's innovations for efficiency and cost control
AgScience's Dr Peter Espie is running fertiliser trials on Shortlands Station
Humates are organic acids that can improve soil and pasture by retaining more N and P
Merv Solly is a transport operator who also mines dolomite for agricultural use
The history and current day production of Kapuni Urea Plant
The increasing use of non-conventional fertilisers in organic and conventional farming systems
Arable farmer Don Hart grows winter crops for finishing lambs and for silage
A source of calcium and magnesium for improved soil and animal health
A short history of fertiliser spreading in New Zealand
A maize grower who hosted a series of nitrogen trials to maximise production
A Plant & Food Research urban compost trial for agricultural crops
The growth of organics in conventional farming practices and food production around New Zealand