scholarly journals Regenerative Architecture: An Application of Regionalist Sustainability in New Zealand Dairy Farming Practice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jacob Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Dairy Farm ◽  
Dairy Farming ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Farming Practice ◽  
Physical Form ◽  
Farm Sustainability

<p>Over the past decade the New Zealand dairy industry has undergone unparalleled expansion in the agricultural sector. The influence of globalised market competition, beginning in 1985, has resulted in significant changes to the operation and scale of production of New Zealand farm conditions. With this, there have been a series of changes to the physical form of farming in New Zealand - most notably in a shift towards larger and more intensive practice. The term 'factory farming' has taken a unique and contextual evolution within these conditions, leading to questions of sustainability. Sustainability in this setting is often defined by production growth and trade conditions before more humanistic issues of social and ecological welfare.   Similar to the competing perspectives of New Zealand dairy farm sustainability, the discipline of architecture faces a wide and complex field of approaches to sustainable practice. The views of researcher, Steven Moore, are focused on in this study with regard to the contested definitions of architectural sustainability. He advocates a regionalist approach in the belief that sustainability is better defined by local circumstance than a universal best approach. Moore's theory of non-modem regionalism and regenerative architecture are utilised in this thesis as a means of questioning the issues faced in New Zealand dairy farm sustainability. This study applies Moore's concept of a regenerative architecture in New Zealand dairy farming to cultivate improved social and ecological conditions.  The architectural consequence of this discussion is in the form of a future mixed-use prototype for Canterbury dairy farming practice. This design explores the relationship between architecture, place and regionalist concepts of sustainability to improve the social and ecological attributes of this cultural setting. By taking a multidisciplinary approach to toward environmentally and socially sustainable dairy farming practices the design produces an integrated system that identifies with Moore's regenerative strategy. The study concludes that further architectural investigations into this setting could potentially influence and improve the future health and sustainability of the industry.</p>

scholarly journals Regenerative Architecture: An Application of Regionalist Sustainability in New Zealand Dairy Farming Practice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jacob Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Dairy Farm ◽  
Dairy Farming ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Farming Practice ◽  
Physical Form ◽  
Farm Sustainability

<p>Over the past decade the New Zealand dairy industry has undergone unparalleled expansion in the agricultural sector. The influence of globalised market competition, beginning in 1985, has resulted in significant changes to the operation and scale of production of New Zealand farm conditions. With this, there have been a series of changes to the physical form of farming in New Zealand - most notably in a shift towards larger and more intensive practice. The term 'factory farming' has taken a unique and contextual evolution within these conditions, leading to questions of sustainability. Sustainability in this setting is often defined by production growth and trade conditions before more humanistic issues of social and ecological welfare.   Similar to the competing perspectives of New Zealand dairy farm sustainability, the discipline of architecture faces a wide and complex field of approaches to sustainable practice. The views of researcher, Steven Moore, are focused on in this study with regard to the contested definitions of architectural sustainability. He advocates a regionalist approach in the belief that sustainability is better defined by local circumstance than a universal best approach. Moore's theory of non-modem regionalism and regenerative architecture are utilised in this thesis as a means of questioning the issues faced in New Zealand dairy farm sustainability. This study applies Moore's concept of a regenerative architecture in New Zealand dairy farming to cultivate improved social and ecological conditions.  The architectural consequence of this discussion is in the form of a future mixed-use prototype for Canterbury dairy farming practice. This design explores the relationship between architecture, place and regionalist concepts of sustainability to improve the social and ecological attributes of this cultural setting. By taking a multidisciplinary approach to toward environmentally and socially sustainable dairy farming practices the design produces an integrated system that identifies with Moore's regenerative strategy. The study concludes that further architectural investigations into this setting could potentially influence and improve the future health and sustainability of the industry.</p>

scholarly journals ‘I wouldn’t want to be a cow’: An ethnographic exploration of more-than-human relational praxis on a New Zealand dairy farm

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Audrey Goulding
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Dairy Farm ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Agricultural Practice ◽  
Interspecies Interactions ◽  
Informal Knowledge ◽  
Farming Practice ◽  
Human Exceptionalism ◽  
Industrial Farming ◽  
Nonhuman Agency

<p>This thesis aims to understand how industrial farmers perceive and relate to the nonhuman world. A small-scale ethnographic focus of a 250-cow dairy farm in New Zealand’s Rangitikei district is presented as a proxy for approaching the underexamined field of farming ontologies. A common narrative exists that western ontology is characterised by human exceptionalism, a belief in humanity as singularly subjective beings amid a mute and objective world. Contrary to this discourse, this thesis finds that farmer relations to the nonhuman world are multiple, complex and contingent. This thesis employs Annemarie Mol’s (2002) understanding of ontology as established through practice, and thereby multiple, in conjunction with a material analysis of the farm as a composite ecology of human and nonhuman agents. I argue that industrial agricultural practice is informed both by transcendent, objectivist logics, and by co-constituted, informal knowledge formed through co-habitation of multispecies lifeworlds. The unruly agency of lively materials, and the affective and intersubjective qualities of interspecies interactions, are shown to figure conditionally in farming practice. These components are managed within the bounds of industrial agriculture’s outwardly utilitarian and anthropocentric systems through responsive practices of care and attentiveness, revealing that an attribution of nonhuman agency and subjectivity is essential to industrial farming practice.</p>

Is systems research addressing the current and future needs of dairy farms?

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (7) ◽  
pp. 1311 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. M. Raedts ◽  
S. C. Garcia ◽  
D. F. Chapman ◽  
G. R. Edwards ◽  
N. Lane ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Climate Variability ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Dairy Farm ◽  
Dairy Farms ◽  
Dairy Farming ◽  
System Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Farm Systems

During the past decade, Australian and New Zealand dairy farmers have been increasingly exposed to volatility in milk prices, declining terms of trade, climate variability, changing regulation, and increasing consumer demand to demonstrate their ‘social licence to farm’. In response to the varying challenges, it is not surprising that we see significant diversity in dairy-farm systems in Australia and New Zealand. Despite much research effort to address these challenges at both the component and farm-system level, the evidence of adoption and dairy farming-system change over the past 5 years has been inconclusive. The present review explores how farmers and systems research have been affected and are responding, and whether systems research is developing research in the appropriate direction, proactively researching dairy-farming systems that are resilient, profitable and sustainable into the future, notwithstanding the increased volatility that dairy farms are experiencing. While much farm systems research in Australia and New Zealand has addressed the challenges associated with improving productivity and profitability, and the known challenges such as climate variability and improving environmental outcomes, there is need to fore-sight future risk, challenges and opportunities for dairy systems. It is also important that the system researchers explore alternative approaches such as working collaboratively with the known system experts, the dairy farmer, in a participatory environment to increase rate of knowledge transfer and adoption of positive research outcome.

scholarly journals ‘I wouldn’t want to be a cow’: An ethnographic exploration of more-than-human relational praxis on a New Zealand dairy farm

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Audrey Goulding
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Dairy Farm ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Agricultural Practice ◽  
Interspecies Interactions ◽  
Informal Knowledge ◽  
Farming Practice ◽  
Human Exceptionalism ◽  
Industrial Farming ◽  
Nonhuman Agency

<p>This thesis aims to understand how industrial farmers perceive and relate to the nonhuman world. A small-scale ethnographic focus of a 250-cow dairy farm in New Zealand’s Rangitikei district is presented as a proxy for approaching the underexamined field of farming ontologies. A common narrative exists that western ontology is characterised by human exceptionalism, a belief in humanity as singularly subjective beings amid a mute and objective world. Contrary to this discourse, this thesis finds that farmer relations to the nonhuman world are multiple, complex and contingent. This thesis employs Annemarie Mol’s (2002) understanding of ontology as established through practice, and thereby multiple, in conjunction with a material analysis of the farm as a composite ecology of human and nonhuman agents. I argue that industrial agricultural practice is informed both by transcendent, objectivist logics, and by co-constituted, informal knowledge formed through co-habitation of multispecies lifeworlds. The unruly agency of lively materials, and the affective and intersubjective qualities of interspecies interactions, are shown to figure conditionally in farming practice. These components are managed within the bounds of industrial agriculture’s outwardly utilitarian and anthropocentric systems through responsive practices of care and attentiveness, revealing that an attribution of nonhuman agency and subjectivity is essential to industrial farming practice.</p>

scholarly journals PENERAPAN GOOD DAIRY FARMING PRACTICE (GDFP) DAN PENDAPATAN USAHA TERNAK SAPI PERAH KEMITRAAN DAN MANDIRI DI KABUPATEN JEMBER

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Siti Aminah ◽  
M . Rondhi
Keyword(s):  
Dairy Cows ◽  
Milk Production ◽  
Dairy Cow ◽  
Dairy Farm ◽  
Dairy Farming ◽  
Cow Milk ◽  
Net Income ◽  
Livestock Farming ◽  
Farming Practice ◽  
Use Efficiency

ABSTRACT Increased demand of milk is higher along with the increasing number of population, but increased demand of milk is less offset by increased production of local dairy cow milk so that in fulfilling local milk need is still doing a lot of milk import. With the existing of milk demand, livestock farming development of dairy cows can be done in Jember Regency. One of dairy cow farming in Jember Regency is located in Kemuning Lor Village Arjasa District Jember Regency which is the independent farm. Partnership farm in Jember Regency is in Ajung Village Ajung District, Balung Lor Village Balung District and Rowotengah Village Sumberbaru District which are partnership farm with Galur Murni Cooperative. Both livestock businesses experience the same problem which is the lows of milk production so that causes the lows of income received by the farmer. Milk production can increase if the farmer can apply GDFP (Good Dairy Farming Practice) of good dairy cows. This research aimed to (1) find out GDFP implementation, (2) find out the income, and (3) find out cost use efficiency. This research showed that: (1) The level of GDFP implementation of partnership farm was higher than the level of GDFP implementation of the independent farm. (2) Both livestock businesses of partnership and independent farm in Jember Regency is mutual. The amount of income per tail of partnership dairy cows was IDR 8,895,762/year and the net income per tail of independent dairy cows was IDR 11,635,231/year, (3) The cost use efficiency on partnership and independent dairy farm businesses was all efficient. The efficiency value of the R/C ratio of partnership dairy farm business was 1.25 while the efficiency value of the R/C ratio of the independent dairy farm was 1.18.   Keywords: Dairy Cows, GDFP Implementation, Income, Efficiency of R/C Ratio  

Levy oration - 2015

2016 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
C.W. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Dairy Farming ◽  
Competitive Edge

New Zealand dairy farming has lost its competitive edge

The Limits of the Offshore Oil Exploration Ban and Agricultural Sector Deal to Reduce Emissions in New Zealand

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-117
Author(s):  
M.C. Abraham-Dukuma ◽  
F.N. Okpaleke ◽  
Q.M. Hasan ◽  
M. O. Dioha
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Oil Exploration ◽  
Reduce Emissions ◽  
Offshore Oil

Profit margin hedging in the New Zealand dairy farming industry

2021 ◽  
pp. 100197
Author(s):  
Adrian Fernandez-Perez ◽  
Bart Frijns ◽  
Ilnara Gafiatullina ◽  
Alireza Tourani-Rad
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Dairy Farming ◽  
Profit Margin ◽  
Farming Industry

scholarly journals The Carbon Footprint of Energy Consumption in Pastoral and Barn Dairy Farming Systems: A Case Study from Canterbury, New Zealand

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 4809 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hafiz Muhammad Abrar Ilyas ◽  
Majeed Safa ◽  
Alison Bailey ◽  
Sara Rauf ◽  
Marvin Pangborn
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Dairy Farming ◽  
Carbon Footprints ◽  
Energy Inputs ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Feed Supplements ◽  
Dairy Systems ◽  
Milk Solids ◽  
On Farm

Dairy farming is constantly evolving to more intensive systems of management, which involve more consumption of energy inputs. The consumption of these energy inputs in dairy farming contributes to climate change both with on-farm emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels, and by off-farm emissions due to production of farm inputs (such as fertilizer, feed supplements). The main purpose of this research study was to evaluate energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, the carbon footprint, of pastoral and barn dairy systems located in Canterbury, New Zealand. The carbon footprints were estimated based on direct and indirect energy sources. The study results showed that, on average, the carbon footprints of pastoral and barn dairy systems were 2857 kgCO2 ha−1 and 3379 kgCO2 ha−1, respectively. For the production of one tonne of milk solids, the carbon footprint was 1920 kgCO2 tMS−1 and 2129 kgCO2 tMS−1, respectively. The carbon emission difference between the two systems indicates that the barn system has 18% and 11% higher carbon footprint than the pastoral system, both per hectare of farm area and per tonne of milk solids, respectively. The greater carbon footprint of the barn system was due to more use of imported feed supplements, machinery usage and fossil fuel (diesel and petrol) consumption for on-farm activities.

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