Agritech

Sarah Adams of Gallagher predicts tech will revolutionise remote farming, enabling individual animal management for precision and sustainability.

Platform facilitates connections between startups and funding opportunities.

Agrivoltaics is the way of the future, though not all farms will be able to benefit, say two experts.

Automated pasture monitoring company went into receivership five months ago.

The huge Mpac kiwifruit packing operation is the pick of the bunch in terms of efficiency and innovation.

Lincoln Agritech finds success with ‘new channel to enter markets with meaningful, well-funded access’.

Red seaweed company founder challenges strict regulation of product in Aotearoa.

No matter the system, it’s your openness to innovation that is the real differentiator, says David Eade.

Miraka CEO urges the fast-tracked adoption of new technologies to keep NZ ahead in the mitigation race.

Once-a-day milking can effect the amounts of particular proteins in milk, a doctoral candidate finds.

Byte-sized digital improvement is revolutionising the dairy sector.

Strong contingent from the continent will be picking up tips on building greener pastures.

Process managed under authority’s two-week rapid assessment pathway.

AgriZeroNZ invests $9.9M in US company in race for ‘holy grail’ of emissions battle.

Company says it’s ‘working on a plan’ to share key knowledge with other farmers.

The panel called for a more informed national conversation around GM and gene editing, as the technologies have significant potential for sectors such as agriculture.

Management method that enhances populations of beneficial species or disrupts populations of pest species outlined in seminar.

From cosier cows to a less stressful operation all round, switching to robotics has been an unalloyed good, says Bruce Dinnington.

New report unpacks future scenarios for land use in New Zealand.

 Almost two decades after work began on it, a new automated primal lamb cutting system has been installed at Silver Fern Farms’ Finegand plant. Neal Wallace reports.

Independent report highlights slowdown of EPA agrichemicals approval process and its cost to the sector.

Presenting range of land-use scenarios, researchers say the worst course of action would be to do nothing.

Integrape has partnered with agricultural robotics supplier Agri Automation, which will provide a self-driving Burro robot that will be equipped with cameras.

What was once a hard row to hoe is now a thriving operation where lameness and costs are down and profits, morale and sleep-ins are up.

Lincoln University’s developmental dairy farm is working out how to get data to better serve the needs of farmers, both as a measuring tool and a way to improve management.

The sprayer has a 12 metre boom, significantly longer than a standard boom.

The Olsens simply wanted more productive pastures. They ended up with a welcome soil carbon bonus, too.

A few times a month satellite will pass over NZ and monitor emission trends from at least two of its main dairy areas.

Intensive monitoring among the more effective resets in farm management.

Cost of new tech to be split three ways with dairy giants and farmer suppliers in seven-year project.

Processor majority owned by The a2 Milk Co eliminates 22,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent Scope 1 emissions a year.

FarmIQ releases new step-by-step guide linked to existing farm management programme.

A new use for virtual fencing of cattle may have emerged – a way to get them thinning out the fuel load in high country before fire season rages.

Planting systems increase productivity and uniform quality of fruit.

Recent trials in some of Northland’s toughest country open up a world of opportunities.

Mobile robot scarecrow being trialled in cherry orchards.