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Work is close to completion on Massey University’s Dairy 4 Farm, after the university partnered with AgResearch to boost on-farm research capability and facilities in the lower North Island.
Massey University's agricultural students have responded well to online learning in the present Covid-19 environment.
Hogget breeding has the potential to improve farm productivity but they take careful management according to Professor Paul Kenyon of Massey University. Peter Burke reports.
Bioeconomic modelling, published by Massey University PhD student Lydia Farrell in 2020 and more recent work by the team, has shown that adding hogget breeding to a North Island hill country property would increase cash operating surplus.
The Head of Massey’s School of Agriculture & Environment, Professor Paul Kenyon, says the direction the Government is heading on sustainability heralds the way that NZ will farm in the future.
Hogget breeding, done correctly, can increase the number of lambs weaned on a farm each year and their lifetime performance.
OPINION: In the same way that even a stopped clock is right twice a day, economists sometimes get it right.
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