FAR Weekly: 24 June 2018

Read the booklet for the drone focused sprayers 101 workshops from August 2026. 

New FAR strategy to strengthen New Zealand's arable future.

If you’re an East Coast maize grower interested in improving nitrogen use efficiency, profitability and environmental outcomes, read on! FAR is offering several opportunities for maize growers to learn, collaborate and help shape future nitrogen management recommendations.

Crop Action keeps you up to date with arable crop development and actions right across New Zealand.

Here you can find the booklet for the 2026 maize winter workshops.

FAR has received funding for a four-year Primary Sector Growth Fund project titled Integrated weed management in a world of herbicide resistance. As part of this project FAR are seeking growers interested in hosting a Long-Term Integrated Weed Management (IWM) monitor farm or trial site.

FAR, in partnership with the Oat Industry Group (OIG), is seeking growers in South Otago and Southland interested in hosting a monitor paddock as part of a new three-year project assessing the regional resilience of emerging milling oat cultivars.

Crop Action keeps you up to date with arable crop development and actions right across New Zealand.

This CPT book outlines trial-specific yields and individual cultivar disease ratings for spring sown wheat and barley cultivars included in the 2025-2026 CPT trials.

Plantain has become an increasingly important component of pasture seed mixes, driven in part by heightened environmental concerns regarding nitrate leaching from grazed pastoral systems. Nitrogen (N) fertiliser management is widely regarded as the principal agronomic lever for increasing plantain seed yield, especially in environments with low inherent soil fertility. This project aims to improve the agronomy of plantain seed production by identifying optimal biological and economic N application rates.