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2025/26 Autumn sown CPT booklet
This book outlines trial-specific yields and individual cultivar disease ratings for autumn sown wheat and barley cultivars included in the 2025-2026 CPT trials....
Crop Action: Issue 11, 2026
Crop Action keeps you up to date with arable crop development and actions right across New Zealand....
Southern Arable Research Hub
FAR's Southern Arable Research Hub at Knapdale, north of Gore, is currently entering its third season. Here’s an update of what has been going on....
Crop Action: Issue 10, 2026
Crop Action keeps you up to date with arable crop development and actions right across New Zealand....
Crop Action: Issue 9, 2026
Crop Action keeps you up to date with arable crop development and actions right across New Zealand....
Seeking grower input
Want to have more of a say in how FAR operates in Canterbury? We’re looking for growers to join the Mid-Canterbury (MC) and Northern South Island (NSI) Arable Research Groups (ARGs). ARGs work with FAR to guide research and extension delivery within their region. Each of FAR’s seven ARGs includes up to 11 growers and up to five appointed members (usually from industry). They meet three or four times a year to share regional ideas and information and discuss research and extension projects. ...
Crop Action: Issue 8, 2026
Crop Action keeps you up to date with arable crop development and actions right across New Zealand....
Saving cost though input application efficiency
With concerns about fuel and fertiliser prices increasing, FAR Technology Manager Chris Smith has some tips for doing your best to use inputs as efficiently as possible. ...
White clover harvest and weed management senimar booklet
Catch up on the booklet for the white clover seminar held April 2026. ...
Updated Costs of Production
FAR contracts Macfarlane Rural Business (MRB) to update the Cost of Production spreadsheet annually. There are two spreadsheets below. The first is based on forecast figures for the for the 2026-27 harvest and now includes mid-Canterbury irrigated winter OSR, sunflowers, and maize silage, along with Hawkes Bay unirrigated maize grain. The second is based on 2025/26 figures....