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Working together to increase yield on Bay of Plenty farm
Dayna Rowe manages the family dairy farm at Pongakawa in the Bay of Plenty. Rowe Farm is a 1,000-cow operation on a 289-effective hectare milking platform.
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Pasture & Cropping
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Chemically healthy soil?
Following on from last month’s article on soil physical health, Ballance Agri-Nutrient Nutrient Dynamics Specialist Jim Risk looks at soil chemical health.
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A health check for your soil
In the first of a three-part series on soil health, Ballance Agri-Nutrient Nutrient Dynamics Specialist Jim Risk looks at soil’s physical health.
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Maize and its benefits from below
A rhizotron project by Pioneer has uncovered just how long maize roots will grow and how they can benefit your farm’s bottom line and environmental impact.
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Tailoring nitrogen applications to optimise response
Help is at hand to get the most out of nitrogen fertiliser under new rules.
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Restoring high quality pasture growth before winter
Fast, cost-effective and efficient undersowing is a useful technique to extend the life of pastures that may be thinning out but are not yet ready for full renewal.
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Kiwi farmer finds the grass is greenest at home
Kevin and wife Cherie had worked their way up the ranks of the New Zealand dairy industry when they got the opportunity to take the New Zealand system to the America.
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Harnessing the sun's energy from Kaitaia to Kuala Lumpur
Solar panels on Farm Source’s stores are offsetting carbon equivalent to 12 Farm Source delivery utes each month and are generating impressive operational cost savings.
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Pioneer Lucerne delivers quality feed
Gareth Parkes is a man of few words – so he lets his farm results do the talking. Milking 330 cows on a 100 hectare (ha) milking platform at Linkwater in the Marlborough Sounds, Gareth’s comprehensive feeding system ensures his cows are performing to the best of their ability – an outstanding 500 kilograms of milksolids (kgMS) per cow.
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Top tips for autumn undersowing
As the season gets underway, some paddocks will be thinning or ‘opening up’ and requiring attention this autumn. To prioritise and plan for autumn undersowing, pasture condition scoring is recommended as a method of identifying and prioritising paddocks.
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The grass is looking greener for Ohakune dairy farmer Mike Hammond
Mike, who farms a herd of 210 on 100ha in the central North Island, is enjoying an improved bottom line and more days in milk after his Farm Source Technical Sales Representative helped him find a ryegrass that works well for his farm system.
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Tactical management of nitrogen
In autumn, there’s a focus on ensuring pasture covers and cow condition are at target levels ahead of winter, but it’s equally important to focus on how you achieve these to reduce potential nutrient losses during what is often a high-risk period of the year. Management decisions made in autumn impact the amount of nitrogen (N) loss that can occur from your farm. The risks linked to these management decisions are reported through your farm’s Environmental Report.
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Scoring pastures for renewal
Herbage testing is the only way to accurately assess levels of micronutrients important for production.
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Pasture seed sown, job done? Not yet!
You’ve sprayed out your paddocks and sown seed for new pasture – now it’s just a matter of sitting back and waiting for the grass to grow. Or is it?
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Feed your cashflow, keep milking
Changes in pasture quantity and quality over the summer months can lead to the age-old question; To dry off or not to dry off? There are several factors to consider when answering this question. Vanessa Lilly, Technical Sales Representative for SealesWinslow, highlights the key considerations for body condition score (BCS), milk production and supporting the bottom line.
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Hamilton
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- Tosca Bell
- Store Manager
- Mob: 027 346 0440
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- Nick Anderson
- Technical Sales Representative
- Mob: 027 607 5898
Fonterra Area Manager
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- Emma Williams
- Area Manager
- Mob: 021 228 5473
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- Chris Aitchison
- Area Manager
- Mob: 027 480 9015