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Animal waste and carcass management

Disease prevention and control require regular attention to stock health, knowledge, planning, good record keeping and compliance with domestic regulations. Explore recommended practices and specific diseases and issues below. … Recommended practices Prevention Prevention is hugely important: develop a farm animal health plan or calendar with your veterinarian. This will include vaccination and drench programmes appropriate to the needs of your farm business. Consider buying stock on the basis …
Environment and Catchment Community Groups

Our collaboration-based workshops can help you understand and achieve positive environmental actions and outcomes. … Workshops we currently offer … GHG Calculator and action plan workshop This workshop supports farmers to calculate their farm’s GHG emissions numbers and document their GHG action plan. Trees within Farms This workshop focuses on opportunities to integrate trees within farms to benefit sheep and cattle farming and the farm environment, and at the same time generate a return …
About the Awards

The Beef + Lamb New Zealand Awards celebrate the people, the innovation, the technologies, and farming systems that make New Zealand’s red meat industry world-leading. … The B+LNZ Awards evolved out of the successful B+LNZ Sheep Industry Awards but now encompasses the whole red meat sector (sheep, beef and dairy beef). The eight award categories (four people focused, four business focused) are continually reviewed to ensure they align with B+LNZ’s strategy and goals and reflect changes in the …
B+LNZ Farmer Council and Kāhui

… and setting goals that will ‘shift the dial’ for farmers in each region. These plans guide B+LNZ’s 2024/25 extension programme, directing time and levy investments to meet farmers' priorities for regional events and activities. View the …
Business and strategy

… and the importance of excellent on-going biosecurity practices for their industry. Generation Next Workshop This programme is designed to nurture, assist and encourage the current and future farmers within our sector. Rabobank …
Catch crops for reduced nitrate leaching

… project with investment by B+LNZ of $30,000 over the duration. Outputs Farmer events Three field days throughout the programme Popular press articles Sarah's Country – “ The benefits of using catch crops ” Rural News – “ Hardy catch crops …
Lucy Brown

… with designing and facilitating extension projects for two catchment groups through an MPI Integrated Farm Planning programme. Of these, one is an extension series based off meeting FAP+ requirements, whereas the other is designed …
News

Taste Pure Nature continues to grow value for NZ

Taste Pure Nature continues to grow value for NZ …
12 July 2023
Essential Freshwater consultation

… The Government has finished its consultations on four elements of the essential freshwater work programme – changes to the low-slope map for stock exclusion, freshwater farm plans, changes to the intensive winter …
Melissa Bradley

I am a farmer who is passionate about building resilient communities that thrive under their unique challenges. Where individuals are empowered to bring their knowledge into a space where it is valued as part of shared vision and problem solving. As a mother, wife and farm business owner I can see the power of catchment communities in leading the mind shifts that will create capital for future generations to build on, while generating an amazing story to share. "Working together our farm …