Getting to Carbon Positive Wednesday 21 – Thursday 22 May Havelock North Function Centre In 2025 we’re delighted to bring you a conference with focuses on regenerative crop production, carbon footprinting, and electrification. We’ll have new technologies to think about and see, we have speakers with proven track records, and we’re looking forward to catching…
Month: March 2025
Notice of Special General Meeting
Date of Notice 30 March 2025 To adopt a new Constitution for LandWISE Incorporated There will be an on-line Special General Meeting held at 4:30 pm on Thursday 1st May 2025 Full Members (currently registered financial members) have been sent an on-line meeting invitation and links to more information and an on-line ballot form directly….
Green Beans and Carbon Positive
The Carbon Positive programme continues. Our McCain Foods green bean crop has been successfully harvested and yield and quality data captured. Post-harvest, Alex and Oliva completed VSA tests in all the plots, and those and other data are being collated and processed. All treatments achieved good yields, but we found significant differences between them. We…
LandWISE/Te Ahikawariki Projects
LandWISE has three pilot projects being run with Te Ahikawariki, the Vegetable Industry Centre of Excellence based in Pukekohe. The projects include cover cropping, soil stability testing and use of a device to read nitrate test strips more accurately. Te Ahikawariki/VICE is a government-funded project that is setting up a cutting-edge vegetable research farm in…
Cyclone Gabrielle Project Updates
Since Cyclone Gabrielle hit in February 2023, LandWISE has been capturing data from impacted sites. Our aim has been to increase knowledge of flood and sediment deposition on highly productive land (HPL), particularly the Land Use Capability (LUC) Class 1 – 3 land that dominates the Heretaunga Plains. The initial project captured data from 110…
Bye & ka kite for now!
After a fun couple of years, I am leaving LandWISE. My partner Mitchell and I are taking a big leap and moving to the Netherlands to start the next chapter of our lives and careers. I spent a year studying in the Netherlands in 2016 and I am very excited to be heading back! I…