E-Check - the arable greenhouse gas calculator

Following the 2024 combine workshops the team have been travelling around the South Island meeting with growers and helping them reduce their losses and improve combine efficiency. Find out more about how you can measure your harvest losses here. 

Calculating actual costs of production for arable crops is as easy as adding your crop specific numbers into a spreadsheet, and letting it do the work.

Did you know that FAR has a fund to support growers who wish to attend relevant international conferences and events?

FAR has developed a simple electronic survey (decision tool) to help you identify which online Farm Management Systems (FMS) are best suited to you and your farm business.

A revised, 2024, version of the Good Practice Guide for Trading Maize Forage is now available. This version outlines the Claas JAGUAR NIR Sensor (CJNS) as well as the the John Deere HarvestLabTM3000 (JDHL).

Make sure you have completed this burning and smoke management plan before you burn - and keep it with you as evidence of planning while the burn is underway.

This spreadsheet can be used to calculate nitrogen use efficiency factors when carrying out on-farm tryouts.

This ANOVA Statistical Analysis Spreadsheet Tool has been designed to help make sense of the results of on-farm trials and try-outs.

On-farm trials provide an economical way of comparing management options, on both a practical and economic level, without exposing yourself to needless risk.

The Herbage Seed Subsection of Federated Farmers have updated their ryegrass seed crops cost of production spreadsheet for the 2023-24 season.