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Displaying items by tag: sustainable farming fund
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 13:55
Careful what you wish for!
OPINION: The genie is well and truly out of the bottle.
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Opinion
Thursday, 08 February 2018 10:55
Water quality project wins funding
A project to put fine-grained environmental mapping into the hands of farmers has been awarded one of the larger amounts in the latest round of Sustainable Farming Fund grants.
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Agribusiness
Thursday, 06 July 2017 09:55
Avocado growers smashing it
One of the first projects approved under the Government’s Sustainable Farming Fund (SFF) in 2000 targeted avocado orchard management.
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General News
Thursday, 04 May 2017 13:55
Weevil the answer to tackling horsetail?
A recently announced grant from MPI’s Sustainable Farming Fund will pay for the next stage of a biological control project aimed at the invasive weed field horsetail.
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Management
Thursday, 30 March 2017 07:55
Costly disease targeted in research funding round
The funding of research into facial eczema (FE) and bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD), and better use of antimicrobials and disease management on dairy farms, has been boosted in the latest Sustainable Farming Fund round.
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Farm Health
Monday, 01 August 2016 15:03
Sustainable Farming Fund open for applications
The 2017/18 funding round for MPI's Sustainable Farming Fund (SFF) opens today.
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General News
Wednesday, 13 July 2016 12:17
Sustainable Farming Fund round opens
The 2017/18 Sustainable Farming Fund (SFF) round will be open from August 1 until September 8, 2016 for projects starting from July 1, 2017.
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General News
Sunday, 17 April 2016 18:08
25 new projects for SFF
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has announced a $6.9 million investment over three years in to 25 new projects through the Sustainable Farming Fund (SFF).
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General News
Monday, 19 October 2015 15:00
Bug strategies beat plain old spraying
An ongoing trial of integrated pest management (IPM) strategies in forage brassica crops is showing positive signs, says the insecticide maker DuPont.
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Management
Monday, 19 October 2015 07:00
Nutrient loss under spotlight
New Zealand's shift from a pasture-based model to high feed-input dairy farms will come under the microscope in a joint research project.
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Management
