Dairy effluent and how it is managed has been the cause of much frustration and reputational damage of the dairy industry within New Zealand. As a farmer representative on the Waikato executive of Federated Farmers I ...

This research examined technology adoption behaviours of Canterbury (New Zealand) dairy farmers and the socio-demographic, farm and information seeking characteristics (ISCs) associated with adoption. Ten farm management ...

Conservation agriculture (CA) has been promoted among smallholders in Zimbabwe as a way of addressing challenges associated with poor soil fertility, low yields, and insufficient rainwater. The technique was introduced to ...

St. Lucia intends to privatise its marketing and processing parastatals, and expects agricultural cooperatives to play a much greater role in value-adding. For most of St. Lucia’s agricultural cooperatives, this will require ...

This presentation is about the DRT programs or modelling. It summarizes the Canadian BZM scheme, European DRT schemes and assessing the UK LERAP and German Schemes independently from a NZ/Australian perspective. In conclusion, ...

Argentina plays a major role in the global honey market as the world’s second largest exporter behind China. About 70% of Argentine beekeepers are small to medium-sized. Consumers from affluent markets are increasingly ...

This study set out to discuss staff turnover, the factors that drive turnover and the implications of varying levels of turnover on the productivity and profitability of a business. Of particular interest was the examination ...

The business case for gender diversity is well documented; women make up 46% of the New Zealand workforce, women control 65% of global spending (Continuum) and yet how does New Zealand agribusiness sit in the leadership ...

On-farm Certification programmes and the successful uptake of them by producers relies on some key elements especially if the programmes are to help mitigate the 'licence to operate' debate that is currently hampering ...

Dairy farmers in New Zealand are vulnerable to changes in milk payout which can be substantial. A potential option for dairy farmers is to alter their system in low payout years to dairy beef, preferentially feeding milk ...