A farmers perspective of the long term benefits of the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic's training dairy farm
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Date
1992
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Monograph
Abstract
In 1988 the Papamoa Agriculture Centre became the Bay of
Plenty Polytechnic's centre for Agricultural Training. Practical skills training was initially achieved by
using co-operating neighbours farms for the training.
However this was not the ideal situation, as the practise of
using private properties for training was restrictive. The
properties were not set up for training, farmers became less
tolerant of the inevitable botch up and it became obvious
that the Polytechnic would ultimately outstay their welcome.
From this realisation stemmed a desire to purchase a farm
property which would form a permanent base for Agricultural
skills training. In July 1990 a well located town supply dairy farm was purchased. Not only was the property to be suitable for
training but it also needed to be cost effective. This project aims to consider the long term policies that could be adopted to
maximise the returns from the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic's
Training Dairy farm in relation to ;
1) Commercial return to the Polytechnic.
2) Training of students.
3) Practical research of dairying topics.
4) Extension of research findings.
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