Stories Coming up this Week on Episode 17
Redbank Lavender at Two Paddocks Vineyard Central Otago vineyard “Two Paddocks” is best known for its focus on premium pinot noir production. But in addition to the vineyard, it’s also home to a number...
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Plants for Firebreaks and Shelterbelts A team of researchers is working to determine the flammability levels of indigenous and exotic tree and shrub species. The aim is to help farmers and other...
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Robotic Dairying in South Canterbury South Canterbury Farmers Alvin and Judith Reid started out as sharemilkers in 1978 on a farm near Mosgiel. Three years later they bought their own dairy farm and...
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Providing Habitats for Native Birds with Tui to Town Marlborough has a long history of landscape modification, when Maori cleared dryland forests with fires, then European settlers drained swamps to...
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Putake Honey Dale and Renee De Luca returned to New Zealand to raise their growing family, after some years running a successful consultancy business in Sydney. Renee grew up in Marlborough but Dale...
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Crops and Dairying at Waimate West Demonstration Farm. A five-year trial on the Waimate West Demonstration Farm in Taranaki showed that putting about 12 percent of a farmlet into crops increased...
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New Zealand’s Promising Sheep Dairy Industry Sheep milk contains more protein than cow’s milk and it has more fat and a higher concentration of certain minerals. The sheep dairy industry in New Zealand...
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Aerial Imaging for Better Data Collection The use of sensors of one kind or another is nothing new in agriculture, particularly in the hands of cropping farmers. But a new imaging tool is currently...
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Safer Tree Harvesting with ClimbMAX Nigel Kelly of Kelly Logging is a fifth generation Nelson logger. Along with his father Rex, he has been working with Richmond engineering company Trinder and other...
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BioGro working with Organic Milk Producers for Fonterra Fonterra announced in March 2015 that it was seeking a new supply of North Island organic milk. The co-operative offered organic milk contracts...
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Collaboration for Environmental Gain Marlborough’s Rai Valley has been a forestry and dairying community for many years. Now, logs and milk are no longer processed locally, but recreational use and...
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“Finished by Twenty Months” on Chicory Northland sheep and beef farmer, John Blackwell, participated in a Beef + Lamb New Zealand project, known as “Finished by 20 Months”. The MPI Sustainable Farming...
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Farmstrong: Promoting Healthy Thinking for Farmers and Growers Farmstrong has been set up to help farmers and growers around New Zealand improve their physical and mental health. The focus is on...
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Measuring Effectiveness of Long-Acting Drenches Parasites are among the most important animal health issues concerning sheep farmers in New Zealand. Farmers invest considerable time, money and effort...
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Project North Canterbury Providing a Helping Hand North Canterbury has been hit this year by the worst drought in nearly twenty years, forcing farmers to sell off capital stock and spend thousands of...
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Hurunui Water Project According to Irrigation New Zealand’s chief executive, Andrew Curtis, the next “big thing” for New Zealand will be water storage. But it is not a simple process to set up a water...
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AgResearch’s Beef + Lamb New Zealand Dairy Beef Integration Project The New Zealand beef industry is increasingly reliant on calves sourced from the dairy industry. However, surplus calves from dairy...
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Discovering a Sustainable Fishery for King Crab Fisherman Tony Muollo from Deep Blue Seafoods has teamed with research scientist Reyn Naylor at NIWA, to gather information about king crabs. They are...
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Drones for Agriculture at Aeronavics Aeronavics began in 2010 as Droidworx. Within a week of setting up, the first distribution request was received, and the company has been growing ever since....
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A Solution for Wind-Affected Irrigators In the spring of 2013, storms with wind speeds of more than 130kmph caused widespread damage to agricultural infrastructure across the country. It hit the...
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