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November 02, 2023
Resources for
Primary Industry Bodies
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People in primary sector support bodies provide important direction to land managers, helping ensure that practices evolve in response to new evidence. These resources can help you develop best practices and guidance for farm management, based on impartial and robust evidence.
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Summary of potential impacts of delivering credence attributes on dairy farms
This infographic summarises key findings from research on the potential impacts on dairy farms in New Zealand from delivering specific sustainaibility attributes that are desired…
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Consumer willingness-to-pay is variable
This infographic summarises the various factors that influence the additional premium that consumers in our export markets are willing to pay (WTP) for sustainabiity attributes.
Video
Drought: Farm Profits and Community Resilience
This webinar looked at the strong relationship between more intense future drought and drops in farm profit, and how we might identify vulnerable rural communities…
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Drought: What Does the Future Look Like for Farmers and Growers?
This webinar covered recent drought projections for New Zealand to the end of this century, describing a wetter west and drier east (particularly in winter),…
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Drought: What to Grow and Where?
This webinar discussed the on-farm effects of projected changes in climate, such as a shift in pasture growth season, land use opportunities that might arise,…
Guidance
How to Talk About the Future of Farming in Aotearoa New Zealand
This guide is to help people talk effectively about the future of farming, and land-use change in particular, to the general public and farming communities…
Journal Article
Quantifying contaminant losses to water from pastoral land uses in NZ I: Development of a spatial framework for assessing losses at a farm scale
Assessing the effectiveness of mitigation measures for reducing contaminant losses to water from pastoral farming systems is a challenging task. Two important factors that contribute…
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
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…
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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.…