Innovation, Best Practice and Sustainability in New Zealand’s Primary Sector
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The benefits of robotic milking for a dairy farming couple.
Evaluating the impacts of deferred grazing on hill country pastures.
Dragon fruit varieties developed for growing international markets.
Stanley Brothers’ piggery, cropping and cattle-fattening operation in Taranaki.
Greg and Rachel Hart have embarked on a process of transforming their farm and environment according sustainable and biological systems – with the goal of producing healthy food from healthy soil.
An innovative and award-winning solution to an effluent problem on a Taranaki pig farm has resulted in a system that generates around half the farm’s electricity needs and could have potential for application on dairy farms as well.
A passion for pigs has inspired a free range approach to pig farming
Southern Pork maintains a closed high health status indoor herd of pigs
Bryan Tucker is a dairy farmer, piggery owner and environment award winner
Pig breeder and finisher Ian Carter runs a high health closed herd for the local market
A family runs a free-range poultry and pig business in Northland
Ian Schultz runs a 140 sow breeding unit and is concerned about keeping pigs free from PRRS
A Scottish couple grow and process heritage cattle, sheep and pigs for Farmers' Markets
The growth of organics in conventional farming practices and food production around New Zealand