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00:21:53

French seed conference highlights NZ’s advantages

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2023/08/10

2023 Arable Researcher of the Year winner Richard Chynoweth attended the International Herbage Seed Conference in France. He shares insights into the advantages NZ growers have over their European counterparts.

00:20:08

FAR referendum: why growers should vote

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2023/08/03

Voting papers have arrived in growers’ mailboxes for the FAR referendum, which determines its future. In this episode of Cut the Crop, CEO Alison Stewart explains how FAR is able to leverage its relatively small budget to provide growers with crop research that drives yields and farm profitability while meeting new environmental requirements.

00:11:30

Optimising South Island maize yields

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2023/07/27

Climate changes mean the South Island could become a major growing region for maize, but different management to North Island standard practice may be needed. Researcher Owen Gibson told FAR’s conference that narrow row spacing, being trialled in Canterbury, could be a way of increasing maize yields in cooler climates.

00:16:26

Lessons from Australians farming with herbicide...

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2023/07/20

Australia’s experience shows that herbicide resistance does not mean an end to arable farm profitability, Chris Preston, Professor of weed management at the University of Adelaide says. He told the FAR conference that as Australian farmers can no longer just rely on chemicals for weed control, they are instead adopting multiple tactics and taking a long-term approach.

00:17:57

Emission's pricing - where's the silver lining?

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2023/07/12

In response to climate change, New Zealand has set a target of net zero carbon by 2050.At FAR’s 2023 conference, senior environment researcher Dirk Wallace urged farmers to know their emissions number. As most of an arable farmer’s cropping emissions are from nitrogen fertiliser use, they can then look at opportunities to reduce this.

00:26:14

Farming with reduced inputs

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2023/07/06

Scottish farmer David Aglen runs the AHDB Strategic Cereal Farm, the equivalent of a FAR Growers Leading Change Pathfinder farm. He told the FAR conference that farmers are losing the battle with fungicides and herbicides in his part of the world and the six-year project aims to find alternative management options.

00:17:37

What was new at Cereals UK

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2023/06/29

FAR’s technology manager Chris Smith has just returned from Cereals, the UK’s largest arable farming event. In this episode of Cut the Crop he tells Anna Heslop that environmental concerns, control of black-grass and resistance to agchem is leading to more use of strip till and direct drilling, targeted weeding and use of biological products.

00:22:09

Telling a positive irrigation story

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2023/06/22

Getting the general public to understand the benefits of irrigation is difficult when many link it with intensive dairy, says Irrigation NZ CEO Vanessa Winning. She tells Alison Stewart that this is holding back opportunities for community capture and storage of water, something which is becoming even more crucial as the climate changes.

00:12:31

Benchmarking a powerful tool

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2023/06/15

FAR’s senior maize researcher David Densley is a big fan of ProductionWise, a farm management software tool available to arable farmers. In this episode of Cut the Crop, he tells Anna Heslop that it's a great way to benchmark one paddock against another, as well as comparing performance within a group of farmers.

00:25:34

Growing food with a lighter environmental touch

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2023/06/08

A Lighter Touch is a $27 million, seven-year collaboration between the horticulture, arable and wine sectors to shift the focus from traditional crop protection. A Lighter Touch’s programme director Livia Esterhazy tells Alison Stewart that a lot of tools and technologies are being tested from biologicals and beneficials to AI, with a goal of being adopted by growers.

00:11:49

FAR conference: Why you should go

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2023/06/02

FAR’s biennial conference is being held at the Lincoln Event Centre on June 29-30. In this episode of Cut the Crop, FAR's Alison Stewart and Anna Heslop preview why it is a must for growers, with a line-up of leading national and international speakers covering topics such as nutrient use efficiency, future-focused research, keeping up with agrichemicals and their alternatives, and soil management.

00:08:06

Endophyte shows promise in wheat

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2023/05/25

Following success in ryegrass, researchers have turned their attention to breeding endophytes into modern wheat. Grasslanz Technology CEO John Caradus says that if successful, the long-term breeding project could significantly reduce the need for synthetic chemistry on crops.

00:21:36

ProductionWise gets an upgrade

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2023/05/18

ProductionWise has just had some upgrades, most notably a new mobile app to make data capture in the field easier. In this episode of Cut the Crop, Alison Stewart talks to Harriet Eade of ReGrow Ag, which owns ProductionWise, about the opportunities to use the platform for decision-making, paddock benchmarking, gross-margin reporting, compliance and livestock.

00:14:26

Managing cereal aphids: What to consider before spraying

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2023/05/11

FAR has been extending a network of aphid monitoring traps in cereal paddocks to help growers determine the risk of yield losses associated with aphid-vectored viruses. FAR senior field officer and Crop Action editor Ben Harvey tells Alison Stewart that growers shouldn’t forget the valuable work that beneficial insects do when considering insecticide treatments.

00:14:38

Breeding wheat to beat weeds

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2023/05/04

Lincoln University’s newly appointed lecturer in arable crop production, Pieter-Willem Hendriks, was previously involved with research in Australia breeding wheat cultivars with greater early vigour. In this episode of Cut the Crop he tells Anna Heslop that this is just one approach being taken to breed wheat better able to compete with weeds.

00:10:26

Adding value to arable

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2023/04/27

Southland grower Blair Drysdale is part of a Growers Leading Change (GLC) group providing support for people with added-value small businesses based on arable cropping. Blair, who produces and sells hemp seed oil products under the brand Hopefield Hemp, tells Anna Heslop that the group has learnt a lot and are planning a resource to help others start their own added-value journey.

00:24:28

Cyclone Gabrielle’s aftermath: two months on

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2023/04/22

Flooded and ruined crops, broken fences, paddocks covered in silt and rubbish, combines and chaser bins getting bogged during maize harvest – these are just some of the challenges being faced by farmers following Cyclone Gabrielle. Anna Heslop talks to Hugh Ritchie of Hawkes Bay and Toby Parker of Tolaga Bay about how they are faring two months on.

00:13:15

Tapping into FAR’s weather and disease platform

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2023/04/13

With the help of HortPlus, FAR has added some weather related on-farm decision-making tools to its website to assist growers with crop, pest and disease management. Cody Ellingham of HortPlus tells Alison Stewart that the information is available to all growers and it’s bringing a data led approach to decision making.

00:14:51

Fall armyworm response enters new phase

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2023/04/05

With tropical insect pest fall armyworm now confirmed in both islands, eradication is no longer possible and the initial response will move to long-term management. In this episode of Cut the Crop, FAR’s Ivan Lawrie, who is involved in the biosecurity response, tells Alison Stewart that control options for maize crops, including a bio-control, are encouraging.

00:21:52

Picking a winning wheat and barley cultivar

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2023/03/30

FAR’s Cultivar Evaluation booklet for autumn sown wheat and barley will be available this month, based on the 2023 harvest’s CPT trial results. FAR’s senior cereal researcher Jo Drummond tells Alison Stewart that some cultivars have seen changes to their disease ratings, particularly for leaf rust. She gives a preview of the yields and disease ratings for a cross section of feed and milling wheat cultivars.

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