LandWISE Conference 2025
Havelock North Function Centre
21 – 22 May 2025
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 up with old friends and new.
Do we know the footprint of our activities? How do international markets assess them and what will we need to report? We are proud to present Associate Professor Dr Pii-Tuulia Nikula to open the conversation. We’ve done the numbers on our Carbon Positive cropping treatments, and we’ve others talking about what they are doing to address their footprints too.
If we are going to get to Carbon Zero (or better) we need to think about both inputs and outputs from our systems. Can we soak up more than we lose? Which inputs have the greatest impact?
We’ll report on progress and lessons from another year of our regenerative cropping research and on cover cropping and bio-strips. We will present some new tools for growers to assess nitrate levels, soil stability and insect pressure and have examples for viewing at the Horizons Regional Council Field Session. More on each of these soon.
We’ll need energy, of course, but how much can we generate on-site? Is electrification realistic now? Where to in the short to medium term? We are delighted to have Mike Casey of the Electric Cherry Orchard and CEO of Rewiring Aotearoa opening that discussion. We’ll have electric vehicles and a solar array with inverters and batteries available for perusal.
