The changing behaviours of major Food and Agricultural stakeholders will create opportunities for realising two types of value from sustained environmental farming practices.
With demand for organic produce rising and restrictions on inputs becoming tighter, a recent field day on Non-Leaching Fertilisers drew an interested crowd to Peel View Farm in South Canterbury, New Zealand.
An initiative from the Waikato Client Council, the Rabobank Agri-Leadership Program showcases the vast and exciting opportunities available in agriculture for upcoming school leavers.
Paul Johnstone is the science group leader at Plant & Food Research for field crops in the Sustainable Production Portfolio. He is working on a project known as “Root Zone Reality”, an industry initiative supported by MPI through the Sustainable Farming Fund, regional councils and other industry participants, that is accurately measuring nutrient losses under good management practices across New Zealand.
Daryl and Karen Trafford, have moved from dairying, to sheep and beef farming, and back to dairying during their farming career. They have now created an award-winning vertically integrated artisan dairy business, based out of their Tadmor Valley Farm, located an hour from Nelson.
The changing behaviours of major Food and Agricultural stakeholders will create opportunities for realising two types of value from sustained environmental farming practices.
New Zealand cattle producers are being cautioned that the current high price environment they are experiencing are unlikely to be sustained in the medium to long term, as prices come under pressure from global increases in beef and animal protein production.*
Dairy farmers Gray and Marilyn Baldwin had won the Ballance Supreme Environmental Award in 2009 for their efforts to protect the environment on their property and when they were approached, Gray suggested they go further and construct an experimental wetland.
