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Resources for
Farm Advisors
Paul Sutherland
As a rural professional, you can help farmers and growers understand the drivers for regulation and get ahead of the game. Be confident in trying new approaches, with case studies and evidence-based resources to inform on-farm decision making and reduce risk.
Video
The Tīmata Method: A low-cost way to retire farmland into native forest
Restoring erodible land in New Zealand into native forests can be a challenging and costly process, limiting private landowners’ participation in large-scale projects. However, there…
Technical Report
Retiring Farmland into Ngahere
The purpose of this report, fact sheet and information video is to introduce successful low-cost native planting methods which can be used as an educational…
Video
What is eDNA?
Amy Gault, Freshwater and Community Science Lead from Wilderlab, talks about eDNA. She was filmed at Te Miro Farm, while sampling the source of the…
Interactive Tool
The Matrix of Drivers: Online Tool
This online tool presents what agrifood experts think are the greatest issues and pressures influencing land use change in New Zealand. Developed by the Agribusiness…
Guidance
Where next for catchment groups?
Lifting ambition and gearing up for the long game – a guidance report This report is aimed at individuals or groups seeking to establish, work…
Guidance
Where next for catchment groups? A summary
Lifting ambition and gearing up for the long game – a summary. This summary pulls out key recommendations from the report Where next for catchment…
Technical Report
Pasture For Humans
Protein harvesting from pasture has the potential to provide Aotearoa farmers with alternate land-use choice. For the farmer, the inclusion of protein harvesting has the…
Summary
Taieri Land Use Diversification Opportunities
This website shares a variety of resources produced by a project working with farmers in the Upper Taieri Wai catchment group (Ranfurly, Central Otago) to…
Interactive Tool
Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) for Land Use Diversification tool
This Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) tool was tested in a project with farmers in the Upper Taieri Wai catchment group, which identified alternative land uses…
Technical Report
Enhancing Farm Assurance – A White Paper
Assurance systems are one of the cornerstones of the New Zealand economy and agribusinesses – ensuring compliance with regulations, enabling international trade, ensuring safety of…
Method
Lower Cost Native Restoration of Farmland: Tīmata Method Fact Sheet
This six-page fact sheet on the Tīmata Method has been developed for New Zealand land owners. The Tīmata Method, which in Māori translates to begin,…
Journal Article
A survey comparing regeneratively and conventionally managed pastures and farm management policies
A pasture and farm management survey was conducted on thirteen geographically paired regenerative and conventional beef and sheep farms in the upper North Island to…