Arable

Tim Waehling

Competition vs Collaboration: A Balancing Act for Success

This report by Tim Waehling shows how East Coast maize grain growers can boost resilience and profitability by building collaborative networks to overcome costs and market pressures.

Thomas Holmes

Opportunities and Challenges for the Future of Arable Farming in Canterbury

This report aims to provide insight from a grower’s perspective on the opportunities and challenges of arable farming in Canterbury for the future.

James Allen

Redefining excellence in agribusiness advisory. The role of the rural advisor in the modern world.

The farming world is striving to feed an ever-increasing population from a declining land area whilst at the same time reducing its environmental footprint.

Matt Strahan

Could herbicide resistance reduce the growth potential of our primary industries?

This report is focusing on herbicide resistance and compars the situation in New Zealand to other OECD countries; highlights current knowledge and awareness gaps, shares information we might use to influence decision making and propose ideas that we might adopt to tackle this issue.

William Wright

Where Does the Future Lie for the Arable Industry in Canterbury?

Changes in land use to dairy or dairy support and more extensive family farming operations buying up smaller operations have caused the number of arable farming businesses to decrease significantly over the last 20 years. Recent freshwater regulations now mean that converting to more intensive land uses is difficult. If profitability issues continue to worsen farmers now feel like they have few options.

Fraser Dymond

Should New Zealand be trading maize forage on quality parameters?

This report investigates the important metrics of maize forage quality and how they can be positively influenced. It also looks at how we could trade maize forage on quality parameters for the benefit of growers and purchasers.

Birch Jenkinson

Current Lean production tool use in arable crop production.

The New Zealand arable industry is faced with an ever-increasing problem of maintaining a competitive and profitable advantage, that still provides for its consumers. These challenges are compounded by increasing environmental compliance. Lean theory offers an ever-evolving group of practices, both theoretical and managerial, that create a problem-solving culture, that could help the New Zealand arable industry face these challenges.

Richard Merrilees

Novel pathways to farm ownership in the arable sector.

The aim of this project is to gain some insights into the realities of a person/couple in how feasible it would be for them to be able to gain a foot hold into an arable farming business. I specifically wanted to target people that were not in a position that will or may benefit from matrimony, alimony, and patrimony. Of all the people I interviewed not one example of farm ownership could be thought of that didn’t involve the three pervious terms. The methodology used in this report was literature review into the arable sector and its current situation, this was used to quantify themes present. Using both informal interviews and my own profession I explored the key themes coming out of the industries professionals that service this sector.

Sarah Watson

Increasing field reps’ knowledge of grain trading

The aim of this report is to research the development of a grain trading course for field reps, specifically targeting field reps in their first two years out on the road with the objective that it is used by agribusiness organisations. Industry could use this research document to inspire further discussion and development on upskilling our people in arable. The methodology included an exploratory literature review and a semi-structured questionnaire, and targeted grain traders from the arable industry with field rep staff and arable growers from the various cropping areas throughout the country.

Hamish Marr

Can we farm without glyphosate?

Hamish Marr – Scholar Presentation (May 2020) In 1974 a product was developed that would revolutionise agriculture. It would go on to be the most used chemical spray in global agriculture largely due to its low toxicity, negligible soil residue and zero plant back period. That product was glyphosate and was sold under the trade … Read more

Michael Tayler

New technologies in arable farming.

Due to rapid advances in equipment, software and expertise, the Precision Agriculture industry will continue to progress and evolve helped by a greater uptake from farmers. The ever increasing environmental pressure now on farming means the ability to accurately apply, record and map any inputs will become more important than ever.

McDonald, Grant

New Zealand maize grain production – where is the future?

The Maize grain industry in New Zealand has remained relatively static over the last 5 years in both the human and animal food sectors. The domestic market in New Zealand presents limited opportunities to expand in both the food and animal sectors. In addition, New Zealand’s internal market which is 80% driven by demand from … Read more

Steve Poole

Biotechnology: creating innovative solutions

Biotechnology and GM are vital to feed growing populations sustainably. NZ must overcome fear-based regulations or risk losing its competitive advantage.

Mitchell Peter, J

Can NZ arable farmers profitably adopt GPS guidance technology?

Today’s farmers are under increasing pressure to adopt more efficient agricultural principles, making the best possible use of resources by minimising high energy inputs, such as pesticides, fertilisers, fossil fuels and water, without loss of food quality and yield. The challenges are to maintain and increase productivity and profitability, while reducing any potentially negative environmental … Read more

Hugh Ritchie

Sustainable farm irrigation systems.

Having completed a degree in agriculture I am aware of the importance of soil health and had started modifying the way we approached crop establishment, mainly with direct drilling autumn forage crops, and then moving into the cash crops. We had also invested in irrigation. I had become involved in setting up a sustainable cropping … Read more

Merfield, CN

Industrial hemp and its potential for New Zealand

This report is aimed at farmers, processors and the sections of government involved in the reintroduction of industrial hemp. It aims to provide, assuming no prior knowledge, background information on hemp and the issues surrounding it. It analyses the current political and legal situation; and estimates the potential economic, social and environmental costs and benefits … Read more

Duncan, Bernard

Improving export performance in the arable sector

This study is based on the assumption that the marketing of arable products and commodities on the international market could use some improvement. It is designed to provide those within the industry, or an outsider, with enough information to develop a better understanding of the industry and thus to be able to discuss its future … Read more

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Tim Waehling

Thomas Holmes

James Allen

Matt Strahan

William Wright

Fraser Dymond

Birch Jenkinson

Richard Merrilees

Sarah Watson

Hamish Marr

Michael Tayler

McDonald, Grant

Steve Poole

Mitchell Peter, J

Hugh Ritchie

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Duncan, Bernard