French seed conference highlights NZ’s advantages
French seed conference highlights NZ’s advantages
2023 Arable Researcher of the Year winner Richard Chynoweth attended the International Herbage Seed Conference in France... Read more
10 Aug 2023
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21mins
FAR referendum: why growers should vote
FAR referendum: why growers should vote
Voting papers have arrived in growers’ mailboxes for the FAR referendum, which determines its future. In this episode of... Read more
3 Aug 2023
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20mins
Optimising South Island maize yields
Optimising South Island maize yields
Climate changes mean the South Island could become a major growing region for maize, but different management to North I... Read more
27 Jul 2023
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11mins
Lessons from Australians farming with herbicide resistance
Lessons from Australians farming with herbicide resistance
Australia’s experience shows that herbicide resistance does not mean an end to arable farm profitability, Chris Preston,... Read more
20 Jul 2023
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16mins
Emission's pricing - where's the silver lining?
Emission's pricing - where's the silver lining?
In response to climate change, New Zealand has set a target of net zero carbon by 2050. At FAR’s 2023 conference, senio... Read more
12 Jul 2023
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17mins
Farming with reduced inputs
Farming with reduced inputs
Scottish farmer David Aglen runs the AHDB Strategic Cereal Farm, the equivalent of a FAR Growers Leading Change Pathfind... Read more
6 Jul 2023
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26mins
What was new at Cereals UK
What was new at Cereals UK
FAR’s technology manager Chris Smith has just returned from Cereals, the UK’s largest arable farming event. In this epis... Read more
29 Jun 2023
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17mins
Telling a positive irrigation story
Telling a positive irrigation story
Getting the general public to understand the benefits of irrigation is difficult when many link it with intensive dairy,... Read more
22 Jun 2023
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22mins
Benchmarking a powerful tool
Benchmarking a powerful tool
FAR’s senior maize researcher David Densley is a big fan of ProductionWise, a farm management software tool available to... Read more
15 Jun 2023
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12mins
Growing food with a lighter environmental touch
Growing food with a lighter environmental touch
A Lighter Touch is a $27 million, seven-year collaboration between the horticulture, arable and wine sectors to shift th... Read more
8 Jun 2023
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25mins