Customer Stories, Education, Productivity, Soil Health
Southland farmer Chris Pyper has teamed up with Fish IT to embark on a three-year trial programme to assess the impact of a more sustainable, more cost-effective land management practices by incorporating Fish IT across three separate platforms: a 42 hectare cut and...
Education, Field Outcomes, How To, Management, Productivity, Soil Health
It’s no secret that costs are on the rise and certainly farming is no different. The Economic Service Sheep and Beef On-Farm Inflation Report released by Beef and Lamb New Zealand last month shows on-farm inflation is at its highest level in almost 40 years. Sheep...
How To, Management, Soil Health
Farmers are currently facing unprecedented pressure to change their farming systems from traditional practices towards more sustainable methods with the added context of increasingly high inputs and a focus on maintaining or increasing production. The Scene is Set The...
How To, Management, Soil Health
We all aim to set ourselves up to get through winter as best we can – to hit the ground running early in spring when our production needs to kick into gear and quickly ramp up. One tool in the kit is aerating the soil. Aeration is perhaps under-utilised in New...
Regulation, Soil Health, Sustainability
Regenerative agriculture is a term that is slowly gaining a level of acceptance in the New Zealand agricultural sector. For many years the term and its principles have been scorned in some corners. We are now seeing an increasing uptake by farmers utilising many of...
Management, Productivity, Soil Health, Sustainability
“Soil is essential for the maintenance of biodiversity above and below ground. The wealth of biodiversity below ground is vast and unappreciated: millions of microorganisms live and reproduce in a few grams of topsoil, an ecosystem essential for life on...
