Displaying items by tag: Massey University

A consortium of NZ's top soil scientists are investigating ways of how some silt damaged pasture and horticultural land in Hawke's Bay can be brought back in production.

Dairy farmer Thomas Read is one of more than 100 Kiwi farmers trialling a unique plant on their farms to help improve water quality.

Massey University Professor Emeritus Peter Kemp and a team of 30 people there have been researching the effects of plantain over several years and the experimental plots were established at the university in 2019.

Dairy farmers could save more than a billion dollars over a decade by incorporating plantain into their pastures.

A Massey University veterinarian student has been crowned the Taranaki Manawatu FMG Young Farmer of the Year.

Massey University has come up with a simple and cost effective way of stopping sediment and phosphorus getting into rivers and lakes.

Making science accessible was one of the main features of Massey University’s annual Farmed Landscape Research Centre’s (FLRC) annual workshop.

Creating and delivering diverse solutions for farmers.

The vagaries of the weather pose challenges for animals, as well as people. Work by Massey University researcher and senior lecturer in sheep production, Dr Rene Corner-Thomas, has come up with a novel way of how farmers can help their stock. Peter Burke reports...

The costs associated with shearing is leading to an increasing number of farmers looking at ways to reduce these costs and one is the self-shedding Wiltshire sheep breed.