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- Subject page… Trees are an important part of pastoral-based farming systems. … Benefits of plantings trees on farms: Help diversify your income by providing timber, carbon, and honey. Provide windbreaks and shade for livestock help them grow faster. Stock feed during droughts or shortages of feed. Help soil retention on steep slopes, stop erosion. Improve the productivity of your land, especially areas that do not grow good pasture. … them to market their meat products. However, carbon removals are only one of the benefits that these areas provide on farm. Please contact B+LNZ's resources team at resources@beeflambnz.com to request printed copies of resources. …
- Page… typically much higher stocking rates in dairy farms. This is because sheep and beef farming is generally carried out on steeper country and run-off from hill country is greater – as a proportion of a catchment – than from flat land. … the grazing duration of pasture and fodder crops Winter stock off paddocks Keep stock out of waterways by improving on-farm infrastructure, such as reticulating stock water, improving stock crossings, planting shade trees away from water, …
- … and Animal Handling Water and Feed Behaviour The Physical Environment Husbandry Practices Disease and Injury Control On-Farm Humane Killing Contingency Planning Welfare Assurance Systems. Each part of the code is broken into three main … pain relief when castrating lambs or calves. Full details of the proposed code and the consultation are available on MPI’s website here . B+LNZ’s view We believe there are aspects of the proposed code that need attention and we …
- … Our Innovation Farm Programme helps farmers identify tools and practices that result in real financial improvements. … About the … Farms bring together the best scientific minds and farming visionaries to investigate specific technology and on farm innovations. The programme has up to 8 farmers involved at any one time and their involvement tends to last around 3 years. The farms focus on developing new knowledge and on delivering results that can be picked up by early adopters and high-performing farmers. …
- … Industries. … About the programme The programme was born out of a seven-year economic development pilot carried out on the East Coast by the Tairawhiti Land Development Trust. Participating farms saw an average lift in productivity of … all the various elements together. A key component of the programme is developing skills and knowledge in both the farm and governance teams that oversee these farms. The system is based on farm management teams receiving information and skills to help them identify the animals that are going to be more …
- Page… 2018 Presentation: How do we keep attracting the best people? Stuart Taylor DairyNZ provides more information on the Interview process . … Recruitment and selection …
- … mahi in the Māori agribusiness sector covers a range of areas including: providing information and support – we work on the ground where needed, run wānanga and hui, and collaborate across the sector, with a strong focus on farm system outcomes that look at all aspects of the whenua. building understanding of B+LNZ's Māori levypayers – to …
- … and learn from each other. What is a Focus Group? These are small group learning environments with a specific area of on-farm business or performance topic focus. Each group is a closed group for the duration, usually over two years with … these groups are closed groups with members committing to the full group journey. Selection criteria Actively working on a sheep and beef or drystock property (associated levy payers). Willingness to learn new skills and understand the …
- … Beef + Lamb New Zealand is focused on providing significant return on investment for dairy farmers’ beef levies. … The dairy, sheep and beef industries are closely linked, through … the 22/23 financial year. How are dairy farmers’ beef levies invested? B+LNZ invests levies in two main areas: post-farm-gate investment that seeks to maximise the value of animals sent for slaughter on-farm research and extension …
- Page… selecting for animals with a low faecal egg count (FEC). Sheep that have been selected for resistance to worms based on a low FEC: May have fewer worms that are smaller and lay less eggs. Will contaminate pastures less. Ewes will have a … resistant ones are likely to benefit from a lower larval challenge. It works even better if they’re well-fed too! At a farm level, the reduced number of parasite eggs shed by the resistant animals should also lower the number of infective parasite larvae available on the pasture. The reduction in pasture larval challenge can result in better production, alternatively drenching …