scholarly journals Improving the economic and environmental performance of a New Zealand hill country farm catchment: 1. Goal development and assessment of current performance

2008 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. B. Dodd ◽  
B. S. Thorrold ◽  
J. M. Quinn ◽  
T. G. Parminter ◽  
M. E. Wedderburn
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
Goal Development

Pathways ahead for New Zealand hill country farming

2016 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 73-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
F.G. Scrimgeour
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Hill Farming ◽  
The Hill

This paper provides a stocktake of the status of hill country farming in New Zealand and addresses the challenges which will determine its future state and performance. It arises out of the Hill Country Symposium, held in Rotorua, New Zealand, 12-13 April 2016. This paper surveys people, policy, business and change, farming systems for hill country, soil nutrients and the environment, plants for hill country, animals, animal feeding and productivity, and strategies for achieving sustainable outcomes in the hill country. This paper concludes by identifying approaches to: support current and future hill country farmers and service providers, to effectively and efficiently deal with change; link hill farming businesses to effective value chains and new markets to achieve sufficient and stable profitability; reward farmers for the careful management of natural resources on their farm; ensure that new technologies which improve the efficient use of input resources are developed; and strategies to achieve vibrant rural communities which strengthen hill country farming businesses and their service providers. Keywords: farming systems, hill country, people, policy, productivity, profitability, sustainability

scholarly journals Evolution in Configuration and Productivity of New Zealand Hill Country Sheep and Beef Cattle Systems

Agriculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 531
Author(s):  
Januarius Gobilik ◽  
Stephen Todd Morris ◽  
Cory Matthew
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Beef Cattle ◽  
Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Metabolic Energy ◽  
Meat Production ◽  
Feed Conversion ◽  
Feed Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
Cattle Systems

Metabolic energy budgeting (MEB) was used to evaluate evolution over 30 years (1980–1981 to 2010–2011) in New Zealand southern North Island ‘hill country’ sheep and beef cattle systems. MEB calculates energy required by animals for body weight maintenance, weight gain or loss, pregnancy, and lactation to estimate the system feed demand and thereby provide a basis for calculating feed conversion efficiency. Historic production systems were reconstructed and modeled using averaged data from industry surveys and data from owners’ diaries of three case-study farms and reviewed for patterns of change over time. The modeling indicated that pasture productivity was 11% lower and herbage harvested was 14% lower in 2010–2011 than in the early 1980s. This productivity decline is attributable to warmer, drier summer weather in recent years. However, primarily through increased lambing percentage, feed conversion efficiency based on industry data improved over the study period from 25 to 19 kg feed consumed per kg lamb weaned, while meat production rose from 137 to 147 kg per ha per year. Similar improvements were observed for the three case farms. The New Zealand MEB model was found effective for analysis of tropical beef production systems in Sabah, Malaysia.

IMPROVEMENT OF: HILL COUNTRY PASTURES IN THE WELLINGTON PROVINCE

1949 ◽  
pp. 89-117
Author(s):  
F.E.T. Suckling
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Beef Cattle ◽  
Secondary Growth ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Sheep Population ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
National Importance ◽  
Tussock Grassland ◽  
Sown Area

Of the 5 1/4 million acres of total occupied land in the Wellington district nearly 4 million acres are in sown pasture, the remainder being bush, natural tussock grassland, scrub and secondary growth. Of this sown area a large proportion comprises hill-country farms running sheep and beef cattle and carrying an average of 1 to 2 sheep per acre. From the sheepfarming point of view the Wellington district is of major national importance, contributing nearly 22 per cent. of the total sheep population and almost 19 per cent. of the total beef cattle. The region as a whole carries the heaviest concentration of stock of all New Zealand.

scholarly journals AGRICULTURAL AVIATION AT THE CROSS ROADS

1984 ◽  
pp. 9-14
Author(s):  
O.G. James
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Aviation Industry ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
Threefold Increase ◽  
Important Development ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Post War

Thank you for the opportunity to present this address in my home district, from where I started my business career in aviation in 1949. The 34 years have been eventful, stimulating and satisfying, particularly when it has been said so many times that the agricultural aviation industry has been the single most important development in post war years, in arresting the lost production from New Zealand hill country. The main contribution tq,the threefold increase in stock unit numbers has been the service provided by the aviation industry. It is a record that we, who created it, and spent our working lifetime on, can be justly proud.

scholarly journals DISTRIBUTION AND ECOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN SEDGE

1967 ◽  
pp. 112-127
Author(s):  
B.P.J. Molloy ◽  
P.J. Rumball ◽  
G.L.B. Cumberland
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
Noxious Weeds ◽  
Distribution And Ecology

AUSTRALIAN SEDGE (Carex longebrachiata) is potentially a serious weed on North Island hill country which lacks a vigorous sward. Its recognition as a weed, acknowledged by its inclusion in the Noxious Weeds Act in 1962, was delayed until some infestations were completely out of control. This account summarizes existing information on this plant with particular reference to the northern part of New Zealand.

RESULTS OF RECENT EXPERIMENTS ON SURFACE SOWING

1951 ◽  
pp. 119-127
Author(s):  
F.E.T. Suckling
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
Maximum Benefit ◽  
New Facilities

Surface 'sowing of hill-country pastures with clovers has been practised in New .Zealand for many years and it is undisputed that the introduction of new and improved strains of clovers will assist in pasture improvement and increased production. Today with new facilities, such as the aeroplane and blower, available for topdressing and oversowing an enormous -increase is taking place in the area of hill country topdressed with phosphate. To achieve the maximum benefit from this topdressing it is essential that sufficient clover,is present in the sward to utilise the added phosphate. On large areas of hill country where topdressing is practised clovers are sparse, and under these conditions little response and benefit is derived from phosphate applications. With this fact in view considerable interest has been aroused regarding the most satisfactory methods of introducing clovers into unploughable pastures.

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