Breakfeeds are shorter podcasts from Beef + Lamb New Zealand

Professor Derrick Moot (Lincoln University) talks about AgYields, a database of pasture and crop yields from throughout New Zealand, that was supported by the Hill Country Futures Partnership programme. Hill Country Futures was a long-term $8.1m programme focused on future proofing the profitability, sustainability and wellbeing of New Zealand’s hill country farmers, their farm systems, the environment and rural communities. For more information: https://www.hillcountryfutures.co.nz/

Breakfeeds are shorter podcasts from Beef + Lamb New Zealand

Professor Derrick Moot (Lincoln University) talks about the development of the Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator model (APSIM for short), which is one of the key tools to have come out of the Hill Country Futures Partnership programme. Hill Country Futures was a long-term $8.1m programme focused on future proofing the profitability, sustainability and wellbeing of New Zealand’s hill country farmers, their farm systems, the environment and rural communities. For more information: https://www.hillcountryfutures.co.nz/

Breakfeeds are shorter podcasts from Beef + Lamb New Zealand

Professor Derrick Moot (Lincoln University) talks about the development of the thermal time-based (TGM) model within the Hill Country Futures Partnership programme and how is it going to help farmers with pasture planning. Hill Country Futures was a long-term $8.1m programme focused on future proofing the profitability, sustainability and wellbeing of New Zealand’s hill country farmers, their farm systems, the environment and rural communities. For more information: https://www.hillcountryfutures.co.nz/

Breakfeeds are shorter podcasts from Beef + Lamb New Zealand

Professor Derrick Moot (Lincoln University) talks about the different hill country study sites within the Hill Country Futures Partnership programme. Hill Country Futures was a long-term $8.1m programme focused on future proofing the profitability, sustainability and wellbeing of New Zealand’s hill country farmers, their farm systems, the environment and rural communities. For more information: https://www.hillcountryfutures.co.nz/

Breakfeeds are shorter podcasts from Beef + Lamb New Zealand

Professor Derrick Moot (Lincoln University) talks about how legumes can already help farmers tackle Greenhouse Gas emissions and climate change which was part of the Hill Country Futures Partnership programme. Hill Country Futures was a long-term $8.1m programme focused on future proofing the profitability, sustainability and wellbeing of New Zealand’s hill country farmers, their farm systems, the environment and rural communities. For more information: https://www.hillcountryfutures.co.nz/

Breakfeeds are shorter podcasts from Beef + Lamb New Zealand

Ben and Sarah Dooley farm just outside of Wyndham in Southland and together completed the Beef + Lamb New Zealand Generation Next Programme in 2018. The fourth-generation farmers caught up with B+LNZ National Extension Programme Manager Olivia Weatherburn to share their experience from the programme and reflect on how it has helped them get to where they are today.

Check out more about the B+LNZ Generation Next programme and how to apply by visiting https://beeflambnz.com/your-levies-at-work/blnz-generation-next-programme

Breakfeeds are shorter podcasts from Beef + Lamb New Zealand

Back in 2018 Bayley Coates was starting to climb the agricultural ladder but was unsure where she was heading. Since then, she has taken on the management of a 285ha dry stock block in South Otago. She catches up with Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s National Extension Programme Manager Olivia Weatherburn and talks about how the B+LNZ Generation Next programme has helped her progress and how growing a wider network has been so beneficial.

Check out more about the B+LNZ Generation Next programme: https://beeflambnz.com/your-levies-at-work/blnz-generation-next-programme

Breakfeeds are shorter podcasts from Beef + Lamb New Zealand

Joan Ropiha (Massey University) talks about her PhD work as part of the Hill Country Futures Partnership programme assessing specific natives shrubs for sheep and beef forage and biodiversity enhancement. Hill Country Futures was a long-term $8.1m programme focused on future proofing the profitability, sustainability and wellbeing of New Zealand’s hill country farmers, their farm systems, the environment and rural communities. For more information: https://www.hillcountryfutures.co.nz/

Breakfeeds are shorter podcasts from Beef + Lamb New Zealand

 Dr. Katherine Dixon (Nature Positive) and Angela McFetridge (Design and Capability Lead, Beef + Lamb New Zealand) talk about FarmSalus, the farmer wellbeing assessment tool which was created as part of the Hill Country Futures Partnership programme. Hill Country Futures was a long-term $8.1m programme focused on future proofing the profitability, sustainability and wellbeing of New Zealand’s hill country farmers, their farm systems, the environment and rural communities. For more information: https://www.hillcountryfutures.co.nz/

Tyler Good is Finishing Manager for Willesden Farm on Banks Peninsula, Canterbury. In this podcast he discusses with Professor Derrick Moot of Lincoln University how he grazes a significant area of lucerne. In particular, they focus on lambing hoggets on lucerne, and finishing lambs to slaughter.

This podcast and the associated videos were funded by the Hill Country Futures programme. For more information, including the videos, visit https://www.hillcountryfutures.co.nz/