FAR Focus
FAR Focus 4 - Irrigation Management for Cropping: A growers guide
This booklet presents guidelines for optimal irrigation management of crops. It provides background on how plant and soil factors influence irrigation requirements and then provides practical detail on how to schedule irrigation, select a soil moisture meter and assess irrigator performance. Helpful tips are displayed in boxes throughout this booklet.
The booklet doesn’t cover irrigation system design. However, Irrigation New Zealand has developed an irrigation code of practice and irrigation design standards. This can be found at www.irrigationnz.co.nz/publications/code-of-practice
Hard Copy: $30.00 Electronic Copy: $10.00
FAR Focus 3 - White Clover: A growers guide
White clover (Trifolum repens) is a winter hardy, perennial legume that has the potential to produce very high livestock production. Cultivars are often classified by their leaf size. Large leaves are often associated with a more upright growth habit, have less stolons/m squared and are more suited to lax grazing systems. Small leaved cultivars often have high numbers of stolons/m squared and short growth habits, making them better suited to continous grazing at high intensities. In the arable cropping rotation, white clover provides an excellent break crop for grass species with the potential to return moderate quantities of nitrogen to following arable crops.
Hard Copy: $30.00 Electronic Copy: $10.00
FAR Focus 2 - Cereal Growth Stages: The link to disease management
This edition of FAR Focus has been produced in ordwer to bring together work on disease management conducted in cereals over the last five years.
The booklet is designed to give growers greater confidence in identifying the important cereal growth stages and how they relate to the principles of disease management. The booklet is split into two sections: Cereal Growth Stages and Disease Management in Cereals.
Hard Copy: $30.00 Electronic Copy: $10.00
FAR Focus 1 - Non Inversion Agronomy: Guidelines for successful reduced tillage
Non-inversion agronomy is the husbandry of growing crops without the use of the plough; it covers a number of establishment techniques that go under the 'banner' of minimal tillage, no tillage, brodcasting and direct establishment. It is not just a description of establishment techniques, but covers how the subsequent agronomy is influenced by the method of establishment.
This booklet is split into seven sections which adress the principal results and key points generated by a jointly funded MAF Sustainable Farming Fund/FAR project on non-inversion agronomy, as well as background data covering responses from the MAF SFF, FAR & Crop & Food Research New Zealand Cropping Sequence Survey conducted in October 2006.
Hard Copy: $30.00 Electronic Copy: $10.00
