Webinar: Foot and Mouth Disease briefing with MPI

SHORT-NOTICE WEBINAR – We have just confirmed a spot with MPI’s Foot and Mouth Disease team to provide an update on the disease, the current international context, border measures and MPI’s taskforce response strategy. The webinar will be held on Wednesday 18 August from 4pm.

Canterbury-Westland Branch Winter Networking Dinner & AGM

Time for a night off!

Come along to dinner and an opportunity to catch up with industry colleagues in relaxed environment, this night is for you.

Otago Lunch + Learn - HWEN online meeting

He Waka Eke Noa is a huge talking point, many milestones, reccomendations and key dates are around the corner. Members in all aspects are needing to know the implications beyond the farm gate from farm planning to legal considerations and all things in between! Join Kate Scott (LandPro) and Jenny Denley (AWSLegal) over a lunchtime webinar to discuss the challenges and considerations when engaging with clients about HWEN.

Central District Branch event: Autumn vs Spring calving Trial Update

Full autumn calving is becoming popular for many parts of the North Island, Summer dry is the most challenging climatic event with average summer rainfall regularly being significantly behind evapotransporation rates. This results in periods of moisture deficit and reduced pasture growth rates and feed deficits. Also winter pasture growth rates have improved over the past 20 years with more widespread use of urea and gibberellic acid, improved ryegrass cultivars and increased winter soil temperatures (+1.6 degrees C in 30 years). As a result of this, the Dairy Trust Taranaki has run an Autumn vs Spring calving trial on their 600 cows coastal Taranaki farm. The aim was to investigate the intricacies of moving to a Autumn calving system and to compare and contrast the financial outcomes of this.

Webinar: Doing Carbon Right - for New Zealand and the World

Nick Butcher, CTO of climate-tech startup CarbonCrop, will provide an overview of the challenges and opportunities of reforestation as a means to mitigate climate change, and the role of carbon markets in driving the necessary action and delivering better forests through aligning incentives with desired outcomes. Nick will particularly cover the opportunity for New Zealand landholders through the restoration of native forest on marginal land under the NZ Emissions Trading Scheme rules, and the potential to drive restoration and protection of established regenerating New Zealand Native forest through emerging voluntary carbon markets.

National Fieldays Members breakfast

NZIPIM hosted breakfast at National Fieldays. Guest speaker and theme to be confirmed.