Farming has complex systems and change can be difficult to manage. Critical topics covered include reducing nitrate losses that impact water quality in our streams by incorporating new technologies and practices, new technologies to remove pollutants from surface water, new technologies for weed control and generally, growing more food with less impact and better profit.
Do we really know why we farm as we do? Or are we constrained in ways we just don’t see?
Often our current practices have evolved over a very long time – thousands of years of human history, decades of technology developments. Remember the space shuttle and the horse’s rear? We’ve long forgotten some of the reasons behind what we do, so maybe it is time for a reset!
Come and listen to rethinkers from New Zealand, Australia and the USA. Chat with farmers, advisors, technologists and researchers. Have a rethink!
LandWISE was awarded four significant new projects that started in 2018. They cover enhanced GPS, precision drainage for orchards, nitrates in fresh vegetable production and herbicide resistance management. They’ll be among the topics discussed at LandWISE 2019.
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Wednesday 22 May
8:30am - 5:00pm
Thursday 23 May
8:30am - 5:00pm
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Email Organiser9:00 Introductions
9:10 Platinum Sponsor – Hawke’s Bay Regional Council
9:20 Rethinking Enterprises: Water is key (Hugh Ritchie – Farmer)
9:50 Rethinking Viticulture (John van der Linden – Villa Maria)
10:20 Sixty Second Sponsor Slots
11:00 Future Proofing Vegetable Production – Progress Year 1 (Dan Bloomer – LandWISE)
11:40 Trichoderma – can fungi reduce nitrate losses? (Hossain Alizadeh – Lincoln University)
11:55 Comparing products, timing and placement – N in corn (Brad Bernhard – University of Illinois)
12:10 Comparing product efficiencies (Peter Espie – AgScience)
13:30 Precision Drainage for Permanent Crops – Progress Year 1 (Georgia O’Brien – LandWISE)
13:50 Surveys of Orchards: LiDAR, RTK and SBAS (Dan Bloomer – LandWISE)
14:10 Vineyard sensing and forecasting – the “Grape Yield Analyser” (Armin Werner – Lincoln AgriTech)
14:30 LandWISE AGM
15:30 Bananas (Jane Mullaney – AgResearch)
15:50 Peanuts
16:20 Hemp (Simon White – Farmer)
16:40 Manuka Honey (Lars Jansen – Melita)
17:00 Wrap up Day 1
9:00 Introductions
9:05 Platinum Sponsor– BASF Crop Protection
9:15 Overseer for Vegetable growing (Alastair Taylor – Overseer Ltd.)
9:30 The Treatment Train (Pip McVeagh – LandWISE)
9:50 Wetlands in farm settings (Rebecca Eivers – Streamlined Environmental)
10:10 Woodchip Bioreactors (Brandon Goeller, NIWA)
11:00 MBIE Project overview (Trevor James – AgResearch)
11:10 Genetic markers for quick test of resistance (Andrew Griffiths – AgResearch)
11:30 Weeding with Walnuts (Frank Forcella – University of Minnesota)
12:00 Electric and Thermal Weeding (Charles Merfield – Lincoln BHU)
12:20 Outline Field Event
13:45 Demonstrations
14:00 Equipment Displays