Havelock North Function Centre 24-25 May 2023 It has been two years since we gathered for the last LandWISE Conference. We were unsure in 2022 what Covid was doing and chose to not add to its possible spread. With that more controlled if not fully behind us, we were feeling hopeful of a return to…
Category: soil health
LandWISE 2023 Speakers – Soil Health
Allan Machakaire Regenerative Cropping – McCain FoodsAllan Machakaire is McCain Foods Agriculture Manager based in Hastings. He has been involved in the cropping sector for two decades, involved in growing crops, canning, dehydration and frozen products. Alan has a PhD in agronomy and has published research on photosynthesis and water use efficiency, crop coefficients and…
LandWISE 2023 Speakers – Starting afresh
Responding to Cyclone Gabrielle Industry Perpectives Our group of four Hawke’s Bay industry representatives will discuss the impacts on the vegetables and fruit sectors and the various ways people have responded. How did people react, what were the urgent priorities, and how are people trying to remediate impacted sites? Far too soon to look back…
The Future of Weed Control
By Invitation Workshop Friday 26 May 2023 – Green Shed, LandWISE MicroFarm, Hastings Given the calibre of people who will be with us for LandWISE 2023, we are running a special workshop the day after the Conference. It seems an ideal opportunity to let farmers, researchers and industry get together to workshop where we are,…
Cyclone Gabrielle response update
We all know that many people in the Hawke’s Bay, Gisborne and Northland Regions were hit hard by Cyclone Gabrielle. For many it came on top of a very difficult spring and summer, and some have little left. Houses, sheds, machinery and crops were damaged or destroyed. Some blocks have metres of sediment deposited, others…
Carbon Positive Update
The Carbon Positive project is progressing well. We harvested the first crop, sweetcorn for McCain Foods, on 11 April. It was planted just before Christmas and given the season we had, we were reasonably happy with an average yield of around 16 t/ ha. We have not had time to analyse all the data yet,…
Carbon Positive
Can we regenerate soil carbon in soils used for intensive field cropping? To scientifically test regenerative farming principles within a typical New Zealand cropping system, we have established a six-year trial on the Heretaunga Plains. The trial at the LandWISE MicroFarm is a collaboration with the Hawke’s Bay Future Farming Trust. The information produced will…