Diversification through the generations - a farm evolving

Steve and Linda Hammonds vineyard/farm is adjacent to Renwick, the heart of Marlborough wine country. The 32 hectare vineyard is planted on the flood plain...

Annabel Taylor

Nadine: My guest this week has been in the marketing business for 14 years following a successful publishing and hospitality career. Along with husband Greg,...

Minimising heat stress to prevent pneumonia in lambs

Associate Professor Maurice Alley, Institute of Veterinary Science, Massey University and Kathy Goodwin-Ray, PhD student.

Chronic non-progressive pneumonia (CNP) is a common disease of older lambs...

Simon and Wendy Collin, Hawkes Bay

Simon and Wendy Collin have a 295ha sheep and cattle farm on the north bank of the Ngaruroro River, in the Crownthorpe district of Hawkes...

Melonie Sheppard Human Resources Consultant StaffWise Ltd

Roger: My guest this week is Melonie Sheppard, a human resources consultant, who has created an HR training programme for farmers. Melonie,

welcome.

Melonie: Its...

Air Curtain Incinerator Trial

Biosecurity New Zealand, a division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, is currently undertaking work on contingency planning for emergency disposal of animal carcasses...

Phil and Louise Alexander, Puketapu Station, Napier,

Phil and his brother Geoff have shares of 420ha each in Puketapu Station, which includes sheep and cattle, process cropping and apple growing. The farming...

Robert Isbister

This week we spoke to Robert Isbister, General Manger of BioSecurity at Agriquality, about the impact of a BioSecurity breech in New Zealand....

Managing Dairy Effluent Application and phosphate runoff.

About 60% of dairying in New Zealand is on poorly drained soils that need artificial drainage, such as mole drains and pipe systems. Drainage and...

Tararua Monitor Farm, Dannevirke - Garth and Wesley Coleman

Sheep and beef hill country farm, 518ha, 484ha effective, consisting of 163ha freehold and adjoining lease blocks of 190ha and 142ha.

Sheep: 2300 Finn-cross ewes, 800...

Mark Hazeldine

Roger: Mark Hazeldine, Agritech Sector Manager, for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise is back in the country after taking a delegation of diary technology exporters...

Foragemaster

AgResearch has developed procedures to help farmers decide when, where and how to select forages (including pasture) and manage their establishment. Specific software has been...

Worm resistance to sheep drenches

Paul Hughes, veterinarian from Taihape Veterinary Services, recently conducted a worm resistance survey of farms in the central North Island. The results showed higher than...

Regrassing after the Manawatu floods

A survey of 52 farmers who were forced to regrass after the floods in February 2004 highlighted the more successful approaches used. There were three...

Recovery after the February 2004 Manawatu floods

Alistair and Bo Polson and Donald and Liz Polson, are the Waipuna Farm Partnership, with 4000ha hill country sheep and beef farm, a sheep stud...

Biological Control of Clover Root Weevil

Clover root weevil was first found in the Waikato and Bay of plenty in 1996 over quite a large area, so eradication was out of...

Dairy Insight Farmers, Geoff and Julie Stevenson

Geoff and Julie Stevenson are among the couples featured in the DairyInsight television advertising series. They are passionate about dairy farming and believe in the...

Growing Hemp on a large commercial scale

Craige Mackenzie is a second generation arable farmer on the 300 hectare farm near Methven. He produces a large array of specialist seed crops including...

Redesigning Soil Nitrogen Management to Stop The Leaks

Lincoln University Dairy Farm has high-tech monitoring of its environment, water and pollution. Last year it got together with Ravensdown for the commercial release of...

Spring nitrogen use on hill country

Matt and Sue Latham are the sixth generation to farm Wairewa at Little River in Banks Peninsula. They aim to improve the property and use...

Animal Behaviour and Welfare Research Group

Episode 5: Dr. Lindsey Matthews

Roger: Joining me now is...

Bioshield Grass Grub Control

After many years of research AgResearch has found a naturally occurring bacterial parasite of grass grubs, and developed a way of putting it into polymer...

Phil and Joanne Curd

Phil and Joanne Curd, Apple growers at Twyford, south of Hastings have a 6ha home orchard plus 4ha leased orchard and 2.5ha new ground for...

VegFed Tomato Sector Chairman, Tony Ivicevich

Episode 4: Tony Ivicevich

Roger: Joining me now is VegFed Tomato Sector Chairman...

Drench Resistance Sheep Sustainability Strategy

The aim of the Sheep Sustainability Strategy is to find sustainable best practise breeding and parasite management to combat rising levels of drench resistance among...

Amakiwi Forest Trust

Amakiwi Forest Trust is a unique trust that has been established to grow trees, particularly specialist exotics and natives.

John Sexton

Episode 3: John Sexton

Roger: In addition to land access, no recent issue...

Kapenga M Trust, Rotorua

The Trust was formed in 1983 when it took over controlling its own affairs from the Department of Maori , which had developed the land...

Smart Stimulation System

The basic carcass electrical stimulation regimes of the late 70s and 80s, developed to hasten rigor mortis, prevent cold-induced toughening and enhance meat tenderness, are...

Alec Jack Farm

The Jack farm is 1400 acres (560ha) with 1000 acres (400ha) effective and the balance is native bush, farm forestry or lake/lagoon. Protected volcanic country occupies 60ha and with restricted fertiliser and farming operations, contains kikuyu-dominant pastures. The farm also has 60ha of flats, and the balance of the effective area is easy rolling Northland clay country.

David Irving, The Ice House

Episode 1: David Irving

Roger: My guest this week is David Irving. David ...

Dexcel Extended Lactation Project

New Zealand Friesian cows have been bred to get in calf every year, be very aggressive grazers, good walkers and good producers on the mainly...