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Adaptation knowledge for New Zealand’s primary industries: Known, not known and needed
(Elsevier: Creative Commons, 2019)
Climate sensitive primary industries including pastoral farming, high-value horticulture and viticulture are central to Aotearoa-New Zealand’s economy. While advances have been made in understanding the impacts and ...
Examining the mythologies of organics: Moving beyond the organic/conventional binary?
(Earthscan, 2010)
The turn of the 21st century marked a crossroads for organic agriculture. By 2002, when the research project detailed in this chapter was being designed, organic agriculture had emerged as a commercial force that incorporated ...
Improving irrigation water management using agent technology
(Taylor & Francis on behalf of The Royal Society of New Zealand, 2017-11-27)
Water use demand has increased steadily in Canterbury, New Zealand, over the last 20 years resulting in insufficient water availability. Prevailing irrigation management strategies in Canterbury consider soil moisture ...
Predicting groundwater redox status on a regional scale using linear discriminant analysis
(Elsevier B.V., 2016-08)
Reducing conditions are necessary for denitrification, thus the groundwater redox status can be used to identify subsurface zones where potentially significant nitrate reduction can occur.
Groundwater chemistry in two ...
Stocking rate and dairy production in New Zealand: An analysis of the UQR model with fixed effects
(2019-07-25)
This paper analyzes the effects of stocking rate on dairy production, using New Zealand dairy farm business data for the period 2005-2014. Unlike previous studies that assume a homogenous relationship between stocking rate ...
Governance on New Zealand farms
(NZ Institute of Primary Industry Management, 2015-09)
Farms in New Zealand continue to increase in value and output. With this increase many consultants and professionals are questioning whether traditional ownership and governance models continue to be suitable.
To form the ...
Who makes the decisions on New Zealand farms?
(NZ Institute of Primary Industry Management Inc, 2014-12)
To work with farmers in improving their decision-making and financial situation it is important to have information about the on-farm help used in making farm decisions, as well as the off-farm help which farmers use. To ...
Changing New Zealand dairy farm systems
(SIDE, 2012)
There have been dramatic changes in New Zealand dairy farm systems over the last decade. There is evidence that the basic grass dependant dairy farm systems are becoming more intensive with greater amounts of supplementary ...
The carbon footprint of energy consumption in pastoral and barn dairy farming systems: A case study from Canterbury, New Zealand
(MDPI, 2019-09-03)
Dairy farming is constantly evolving to more intensive systems of management, which involve more consumption of energy inputs. The consumption of these energy inputs in dairy farming contributes to climate change both with ...
Energy efficiency outlook of New Zealand dairy farming systems: An application of data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach
(MDPI, 2020-01-03)
This study evaluates energy efficiency of pastoral (PDFs) and barn (BDFs) dairy farming systems in New Zealand through application of data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach. Two models constant return to scale (CCR) and ...