Conference 24 Rebuilding Our Soils
Planning is well underway for our 2024 LandWISE Conference. “Rebuilding Our Soils” will be held in Hawke’s Bay at the Havelock North Function Centre on Wed 15 & Thu 16 May. This is earlier than previous years because several other major events are scheduled during the following fortnight.
An important theme is regenerative cropping; what does it mean in New Zealand, and can intensive systems be regenerative? That includes our own 6-year trial that began in late spring 2022. We will also report on work to address building soils from scratch and getting fields back into full production, given the devastation in Hawke’s Bay, Gisborne and Northland.
As always, expect a good representation of new agritech covering a wide range of technologies.
We sincerely thank all our speakers, sponsors and supporters for their contributions. Anyone keen to present information, demonstrate equipment, or take part as a sponsor or trade display is invited to contact us.
Gisborne Workshop – Soil Recovery after Cyclone Gabrielle
Bushmere Arms, 1:30pm Tuesday 20 June
An afternoon meeting to discuss actions growers can take to help restore paddocks impacted by Cyclone Gabielle.
- What information is out there?
- Learning from the past
- Decision tree to guide management choices
- Early results from Hawke’s Bay testing
- Early results from Tairawhiti testing
- Paddock responses so far – what seems to be working?
- Where to from here?
Conference 23 Normal Practice Revisited
This conference focused on building and rebuilding our soils, topics close to recovery from the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle and “Carbon Positive”, our new regenerative process crop production project. The well-loved Tech Session had new companies presenting their technologies, ideas about responsible robotics and a panel discussion led by Brendan O’Connell from AgritechNZ. Day 2 focused on weed management, with updates from the AgResearch herbicide resistance management project and insights from two overseas experts. The afternoon field event was a chance to see things first-hand in the paddock, and for many a first opportunity to see our regen project at the MicroFarm.