Stunner of a day in Southland - ideal for cleaning out the lysimeters after last years trial, ready for collecting new monoliths next week 👌 Results last year indicated significant reductions in N leaching after urine deposition where catch crop oats were sown! Plant & Food Research

If you have had any experience, or thought about using catch crops on your farm, please take 5 mins to fill in this survey. Sharing the link with fellow farmers would also be much appreciated!surveymonkey.com/r/JSQPTRZ Ministry for Primary Industries Plant & Food Research Southern Dairy Hub DairyNZ Foundation for Arable Research (NZ) Beef + Lamb New Zealand

Great to see these workshops going ahead for farmers. Was gutted the lurgy got in the way of me attending!

Come join us for our biennial soils conference - later this year in Blenheim! Check out the conf website and pencil in the dates. Will be a great way to reconnect/debate soil issues, to see local soils and of course taste the local produce ... 🙂 soilscience.org.nz/conference

I am proud to announce the publication of our 5th edition of Pasture and Forage Plants for New Zealand. A publication from the NZ Grassland Association. I would like to thank my coauthors for their hard work over the last year. First published 22 years ago.

Our awesome biennial NZSSS soils conference will be held in Blenheim in November 2022! Time to get those abstracts written…. more info availability at link below 😊 soilscience.org.nz/conference

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The team recently prepped for measuring sediment and P movement from winter grazing at our West Coast site, up the Grey Valley. As soon as the cows have grazed the site and the conditions allows (🤞), we will sow half the plots in oats+It. RG. Plant & Food Research AgResearch

Here is a short video where I attempt to cover off the key messages around establishing and managing #catchcrops after winter grazing. Help distributing to farmers would be much appreciated! Plant & Food Research AgResearch Ministry for Primary Industries

Our team Plant & Food Research have drilled 100’s of trials over the years. This is just one of them - check it out.

We currently have a vacancy for a Soil Science Research Associate at Plant & Food Research, Lincoln… Come join us! We are a friendly bunch, passionate about uncovering the wonders of soil! Details at link: #soilscience #soilphysics #environmental careers.sciencenewzealand.org/jobdetails/aji…

Plant and Food Research science group leader Penny Tricker tells Anna Heslop that an important focus of wheat breeding is to combine drought and heat tolerance while maintaining yield and quality. Watch 💻 bit.ly/39ILEOb Listen🔊 bit.ly/3gzANZu

A fantastic honour for our own Robyn Dynes, who is the recipient of the 2022 Sir Arthur Ward Award from the NZIAHS. Robyn's been recognised for her interaction with farmers and her skills in translating research findings into farming practices. More at: bit.ly/3FyskVx

With amended winter grazing regulations coming into force, we’ve been doing research to support farmers with the best advice & options to help them meet their obligations next winter & beyond.  Talk to our experts in the Mystery Creek Pavilion (PD26) at Fielday to learn more.

Great to be working with Finistere Ventures under Farm2050 (farm2050.com) to test a range of technologies that could improve nutrient use efficiencies on farm in NZ. Here we are trialing Cropx sensors for their ability to detect drainage and N leaching.

The team got our Southland demo trial in the ground today (oats and oats+Italian), with a little added pressure from the media. Keep an eye on OneNews the next few evenings. Hopefully a brighter light will be shone on winter grazing than that we’ve seen previously!

For those that missed it on 1news last night, see link below. So many people have contributed to this work, but am particularly grateful to the farmer Bradley Stewart, Erik Smak (contractor), Shane Maley and Shannon Morton for helping make it happen. youtu.be/Xt-VVAF-4qs

If you saw our 1News story on catch crops in Southland (youtu.be/Xt-VVAF-4qs?si…), you maybe interested in the result? Attached are the before & after photos - the highest yields of oats+Italian ryegrass we have seen in Southland! Plant & Food Research Ministry for Primary Industries AgResearch