An independent panel of experts set up to review the nutrient management planning tool OVERSEER® has made wide ranging recommendations for improvements to the way it deals with arable crops. The panel found that OVERSEER® is currently the best tool available for estimating long term, average nitrate leaching losses from the root zone across the diversity and complexity of farming systems in New Zealand, but that further work on the cropping model is...

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FAR is once again offering a scholarship for postgraduate study at Lincoln or Massey University. The objective of the scholarship, which is valued at seven-thousand dollars, is to encourage research activities which will add value to the New Zealand arable farming sector.

The Scholarship is open to full-time students at Lincoln University or Massey University who are undertaking, or are eligible to proceed to, postgraduate research. They must be permanent New Zealand residents and their course of study must include a practical section of relevance to the arable...

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The first New Zealand case of glyphosate resistance has been confirmed in annual ryegrass on a Marlborough vineyard. The discovery was made as part of a project led by the Foundation of Arable Research (FAR) and funded by the Ministry for Primary Industries’ Sustainable Farming Fund (SFF).

Resistance means that some individuals in the target species have developed a means of avoiding the effects of the chemical.

Mike Parker, Project Manager for the Avoiding Glyphosate Resistance team, says glyphosate is the most frequently used herbicide...

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The Foundation for Arable Research is leading a research project aimed at learning more about the issue of glyphosate resistance in New Zealand weed populations.

The Avoiding Glyphosate Resistance project, which is funded by the Ministry for Primary Industries’ Sustainable Farming Fund (SFF) and led by FAR’s Mike Parker, brings together representatives from a range of agricultural and horticultural industries, chemical companies and regional authorities.

Mr Parker says a key outcome of the project will be the formulation and dissemination of national and also sector-specific...

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Over 600 people attended New Zealand’s premium cropping farm field day at FAR’s Chertsey Arable Research Site, Wednesday 5th December, despite a howling nor-west wind and sweltering temperatures.

FAR CEO Nick Pyke says the day was a huge success and very well supported by growers and industry alike.

“This is the second year Crops has run in its expanded format and we were very pleased to welcome growers from all around New Zealand, as...

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