Alex wins in Spain LandWISE is delighted to have supported our Project Manager Alex Dickson to be part of the 2024 IFAMA case study competition held in Almeria, Spain in June. We were even more delighted by an immediate result, as Alex posted in LinkedIn: Their group developed a proposal for a food alliance which…
Month: July 2024
Carbon Positive
June update Most of June has involved watching cover crops grow! but we also completed a series of soil measurements including visual soil assessments (VSAs) and worm counts, and we have sampled for labile soil carbon. To monitor the cover crops’ development, we have made weekly ground cover measurements since germination using the smartphone Canopeo…
Pots to Plots
Microshock Weed Control Is an Effective and Energy Efficient Option in the Field This is a summary of Dan’s work published under the AgResearch led “Herbicide Resistance Management” project, of which LandWISE was a small co-funder. The full paper was published open access in the Sustainability journal, and is freely available to everybody here> Abstract:…
Non-Chemical Weed Management Workshop
Presented by Dr Charles ‘Merf’ Merfield. 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Friday 26 July 2024 PIA Event Centre, Pukekohe, New Zealand. In person only, there is no online version. The purpose of this workshop is to give a complete overview of non-chemical weed management as part of Integrated Weed Management (IWM) and will include addressing…