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… All judging is carried out by assessment of the information provided in the entry/nomination form. There is no on-farm or in-person judging, so it important to write to the award criteria and include as much detail as possible in the … positive impact on the sector and/or their local community. This may be through involvement in the community and/or on-farm with new ideas and initiatives. Individual entries or nominations are welcome. The recipient of this award will be … already demonstrating future leadership potential. Already impacting through new ideas, influencing others, improving farm productivity, profitability or business diversity, the individual will show the potential to continue to impact in …

Since the passage of the Zero Carbon Bill we have actively advocated for the Government to review the methane targets using the GWP* metric and to start reporting on the warming impact of various gases. … This page is a snapshot of the work we’ve been doing – in the background we’ve also had numerous meetings with the Climate Change Commission, academics and officials about these issues.  B+LNZ calls for critical changes in methane approach in Zero Carbon Bill (May 2019) Beef + Lamb New Zealand …

… who wants to accelerate your learning in any aspect from pasture to plate, or simply someone who wants to get off farm and make new industry connections with a bit of learning on the side, then this programme is for you!" … Nurture, … involves the delivery of three workshops over a six-month period with the following objectives: Understand the farm business – financial basics and management. Personal Development, goal setting, leadership basics and mentors. Develop better decision-making skills for  farm business systems. Learn new technologies and ideas to take back on to farm. Develop good team culture within the …

… successfully not only reduces nitrate leaching losses but increases nitrogen use efficiency and feed production on farm. Key results The introduction of catch crops into winter forage rotations can be both a practical and an economically viable farm management tool to help reduce nitrogen loss from winter forage grazing systems. Timely sowing (as early as possible) …

… 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 grazing rules and wetlands.  See here for more information including our … We prepared factsheets and template submissions, including the following WORD templates: Essential Freshwater Farm Submission template (WORD, 181KB) Blank Essential Freshwater Farm Submission template (WORD, 168KB) … Essential Freshwater consultation …