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  • Ballance Farm Environment Awards

    We support the Ballance Farm Environment Awards as part of our commitment to sustainable farming that develops practical solutions to support farm business goals as well as caring for the environment. …

  • Pourakino Catchment Group

    Pourakino has been an active group and is one of the oldest groups in Southland. They have completed a number of projects, some examples are; Catchment wide Pest management scoping and implementation, the use of Ravensdown LUCI and Ballance MitAgator modelling completed across multiple farms in the catchment.  One of the group's major achievements had been ensuring 85% of land holders in the Pourakino Catchment Group area have farm environment management plans.  For more information, or to join …
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    Making the most of nutrients

    … What is the impact of too much phosphorus in water? When phosphorus levels increase to very high levels, the water body is likely to experience rapid weed growth or algal blooms, which can choke aquatic life and cause long-term damage to …
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    Rebuilding continues one-year on from Cyclones Hale and Gabrielle

    Rebuilding continues one-year on from Cyclones Hale and Gabrielle …
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  • Northland Regional Plan

    Northland Regional Council is currently working on a new Regional Plan as required under the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management (NPS-FM) 2020. This Regional Plan will introduce new ways to manage land and waterways which will have an impact on your farming business.  Between December 2023 and March 2024 the Council consulted on a draft Regional Plan. B+LNZ provided feedback as we were concerned about the direction the Council was going regarding stock exclusion from waterways …

  • AgYields

    Comprehensive online resource that collects and stores pasture and crop yield data from across New Zealand.  …
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    Animal tests

    … Post mortems/total worm counts  Post-mortems are a useful tool to determine the role of parasites in cases of poor body condition and performance of adult stock, especially ewes.    …

  • Meet our genetics team

    Our team brings together expertise in genetics, research, and extension. Read more about who we are, what we do, and how we’re helping farmers make more informed breeding decisions for their operation.  …
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    People and equipment

    Contamination can be readily brought onto and spread around your farm by visitors, their vehicles or via equipment that has been used on other farms or at sale yards. …

  • Our carbon footprint

    We use this research to underpin our advocacy efforts.   Life-cycle assessment on the carbon footprint of beef and lamb   In 2022 we released a comprehensive study by world leading experts on life-cycle assessment (LCA) at AgResearch that confirmed the carbon footprint of New Zealand beef and lamb is amongst the lowest in the world.   The study, commissioned with the Meat Industry Association, was peer-reviewed and published in the Environmental Impact Assessment journal. It used both the …