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Technology and Workplace Practices Survey Report

29 Sep 2023

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Emissions and Profitability

Understanding the relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and farm profitability.

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Technology and Workplace Practices Survey report

The latest survey completed in May 2023 shows automation investments remain a focus for farmers, but wearables are on the rise.

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Workplace Productivity Survey 2023 report

The Workplace Productivity Study was designed to look at productivity and workplace practices on a deeper level.

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Best Irrigation Practice Saves Water and Grows More

Research on how to achieve efficient use of water and nutrients and protect New Zealand’s water quality, irrigation systems and management.

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Farming for a lower footprint – what should we focus on? (Technical Series September 2019)

Research on mitigating greenhouse gases and nitrogen leaching - Do they reduce farms’ environmental footprints and improve profitability?

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Fodder beet – friend or foe?

This research investigates the proportion of fodder beet in the diet, and total diet composition and its role in animal performance, N excretion and animal health.

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Forage systems to reduce nitrate leaching - October 2014

Key findings from the FRNL research project.

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Individualised supplementation of grazing cows - how does it stack up?

Individualised supplementation of grazing cows - how does it stack up?

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Meeting nitrogen leaching reductions while retaining a profitable system - a Selwyn catchment example (Technical Series October 2017)

Farmers in Canterbury are some of the first to face the challenge of reducing their nitrogen (N) losses, many to well below their current level.

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Pasture species mixtures to reduce nitrogen leaching (Technical Series June 2017)

Mixed-species pastures (herb species added to grasses and white clover), can increase herbage production and reduce the risk of nitrogen leaching.

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Plantain helping farmers to achieve environmental targets

Once considered a weed, a modern plantain cultivar is showing promise for reducing nitrate leaching and greenhouse gas emissions.

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Tactical Use of Nitrogen Fertiliser

Find out how nitrogen fertiliser use can be carefully targeted and managed to assist pasture growth, without compromising the environment or your profits.

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Technical Series April 2019: N Surplus Shows Performance Article

We’ll look at what N surplus is and how farmers can use it as part of a targeted nitrogen management plan to improve the farm’s performance.

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The power of combining field trials and modelling

Combining field trial data with simulation models can offer new insights into complex plant-soil interactions.

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Download FRNL programme summary

The Forages for Reduced Nitrate Leaching programme (FRNL) set out to find mitigation options that would maintain or improve production and profit.

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Technical Series April 2020

A lighter footprint - can we reduce leaching without eating into profit? Latest research on this and other topics in the April edition.

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Technical Series December 2019

The effects or removing imported feed, tactical use of nitrogen fertiliser, the power of combining field trials and modelling, fat price affects breed profitability.

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Technical Series September 2019

Read about the effect of fodder beet on the liver, hybrid breeding for perennial ryegrass and what an attractive dairy farm workplace looks like in 2030!

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Technical Series June 2019

The effect of fodder beet on the liver, hybrid breeding for perennial ryegrass and what an attractive dairy farm workplace will look like in 2030!

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Technical Series April 2019

Catch up on the latest research on antibiotics, learn how plantain is helping farmers achieve environmental targets and much more.

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Technical Series December 2018

This issue of Technical Series covers the right tools for flood management and runoff, methane reduction targets, and the effects of pre-graze mowing.

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Technical Series September 2018

This issue of Technical Series covers plant breeding for the future, disbudding and pain prevention, and reducing nitrogen loss with wetlands.

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Technical Series June 2018

This issue covers getting plantain into your system, eradication of TB and more.

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Technical Series March 2018

This issue covers stand-off pads, endophytes, pasture renewal and fodder beet.

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