NZGA: Research and Practice Series

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2021 Resilient Pasture Symposium - Call for Papers

2020-06-26

A symposium on pasture resilience will be held on 11 and 12 May 2021 in Hamilton.

This event, 10 years on from the 2011 Pasture Persistence Symposium, will have a strong focus on where our pasture-based future needs to be.

Peer-reviewed papers will be published in the NZGA Research and Practice Series #17. Download the paper-offer form here.

Paper offers must be emailed to nzgrassland@gmail.com by Friday 31 July 2020.

Current Issue

Vol. 16 (2016): Hill Country Symposium

Papers presented at the Hill Country Symposium, Rotorua 12-13 April 2016, with the aim of reviewing the science, hearing from farmers and other practitioners, and discussing what the future should look like.

Editor: E R Thom

Published: 2016-01-01

Past volumes

Lorne Peak Station - achieving sustainable profitability in challenging Southland hill country

M. Tayler, L. Donnelly, P. Frater, N. Stocker

101-107
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Driving farm performance using information systems

C. Isaacs, T.A. White

109-112
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A view on issues outside the farm gate that will influence the performance of hill country farming

G.T. Harrison

11-14
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High UMF® honey production from manuka plantations

J.P. Millner, G. Hamilton, C. Ritchie, J. Stephens

113-117
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A topographic framework for estimating spatial variation in hill country grasslands

R.L. Phillips, M.R. Eken, B.C. Rundquist

119-125
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From there to where? Past, present and future soil fertility management on hill country farms

A.H.C. Roberts, M.D. White

127-135
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A review of contaminant losses to water from pastoral hill lands and mitigation options

M.B. Dodd, R.W. Mcdowell, J.M. Quinn

137-147
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Highlands Station - a story of economic and environmental sustainability

J.G. Ford, C.M. Ford

149-150
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Innovations behind the farm gate that will influence performance of hill farming

P.F. Fennessy, S.F. Glennie, A.B. Mccorkindale

15-20
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Sustaining the productivity of New Zealand's hill country - A land manager's view

D. Cameron

151-155
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Long-term changes in soil fertility in hill country

A.D. Mackay, D.A. Costall

157-161
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The development of variable rate application of fertiliser from a fixed wing topdressing aircraft

J.D. Morton, A.D. Stafford, A.G. Gillingham, A. Old, O. Knowles

163-167
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Soil pH and exchangeable aluminium in contrasting New Zealand high and hill country soils

A.E. Whitley, J.L. Moir, P.C. Almond, D.J. Moot

169-172
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An assessment of current fertiliser practices in New Zealand hill country

D.C. Edmeades, R.M. Mcbride, M. Gray

173-178
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Soil recovery following landslides at Whatawhata Research Station, Waikato, New Zealand: preliminary results

A.M. Noyes, M.R. Balks, V.G. Moon, D.J. Lowe

179-184
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The effects of hillslope forage crop grazing in winter on soil erosion

V.M. Penny, P.C. Almond, S. Laurenson, A. Klik

185-190
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Capability of ground fertiliser placement when spread from fixed wing aircraft

S.E. Chok, M.C.E. Grafton, I.J. Yule, M.J. Manning

191-195
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Impacts of poplar and alder on soil carbon in pasture-tree systems

G.B. Douglas, R.E. Vibart, A.D. Mackay, M.B. Dodd, I.R. Mcivor

197-202
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Impacts of grazing management on hill country pastures: principles and practices

Mcg King, G.M. Rennie, B. Devantier, C.J. Hoogendoorn

203-212
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The opportunities and challenges of Maori agribusiness in hill farming

R.V. Cottrell

21-24
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Pasture establishment on non-cultivable hill country: a review of the New Zealand literature

K.N. Tozer, G.B. Douglas

213-224
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Improved forages to enhance hill country sheep production

T.J. Fraser, D.R. Stevens, R.W. Scholfield, B.J. Nelson, A.J. Nelson, S.M. Shortland

225-231
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Future forage plants for hill country systems

S.N. Nichols, J.R. Crush, C.C. Eady, M.J. Faville, K. Ghamkhar, D.R. Woodfield

233-242
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Litter can enhance pasture establishment on non-cultivable hill country

K.N. Tozer, R.A. Moss, C.A. Cameron, G.M. Rennie, G.B. Douglas

243-249
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Drivers of top performing farmers

M.K. Elliott, R.D.N. Wakelin

25-28
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Hill country cropping with no land-based equipment

P.M.S. Lane, S.A. Lee, B.E. Willoughby

251-255
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Availability of seed for hill country adapted forage legumes

S. Monk, D.J. Moot, B. Belgrave, M.P. Rolston, J.R. Caradus

257-267
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Microsite effects on abundance of sown species on uncultivable slopes

G.B. Douglas, R.A. Moss, T.L. Knight, C.M. Lloyd-West, R. Gray, K.N. Tozer

269-273
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The search for alternative temperate perennial pasture species for low to medium rainfall environments in Tasmania

E.J. Hall, R. Reid, B. Clark, R. Dent

275-279
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Hill country pastures, botanical composition and productive capacity

G.P. Cosgrove, T.R.O. Field

281-288
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Hill country pastures in the southern North Island of New Zealand: an overview

P.D. Kemp, I.F. López

289-297
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Impact of Government and regulatory policy on hill country farming

A. Crofoot

29-32
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Diversity within subterranean clover and biserrula for persistence traits with potential use in New Zealand hill country

K. Ghamkhar, T. Faithful, P.G.H. Nichols, M.H. Ryan

299-307
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An overview of current and potential hill country livestock systems

S.T. Morris, R.E. Hickson

309-315
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Innovations and the future: where do new feeding developments fit within future hill country practices for sheep production?

S.A. Mccoard, D. Ginter, P.R. Kenyon

317-322
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Increasing lamb survival and lamb weaning weight through feeding high fecundity crossbred sheep

C. Johns, J. Johns, D.R. Stevens

323-328
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Effect of easy calving beef sires on the birth weight and growth of dairy beef cattle

V.T. Burggraaf, D.B. Lineham

329-332
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Informing extension project design: the right tool for the job

T.A. Payne, J.A. Turner, K. Rijswijk, A.K. Mcdermott, R.D.N. Wakelin

33-38
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Cull dairy cows as a flexible tool for pasture control on East Coast hill country

P.D. Muir, B.C. Thomson, K.R. Ward, N. Bicknell

333-337
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Over the fence: understanding what people do and how they might change

A.P. Rhodes, M.J. Casey, T.A. Payne, M. Brown

39-45
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Advance Parties: The deer industry trial of farmer groups to lead practice change for improved profit

I. Moffat

47-51
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Social media - a disruptive opportunity for science and extension in agriculture?

M.J. Casey, A. Meikle, G.A. Kerr, D.R. Stevens

53-60
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Improved extension practices for sheep and beef farmers

D.I. Gray, A.M. Sewell, M. Hartnett, B.A. Wood, P.D. Kemp, H.T. Blair, P.R. Kenyon, S.T. Morris

61-66
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Farming systems research: purpose, history and impact in New Zealand hill country

D.R. Stevens, M.J. Casey, K.A. Cousins

67-85
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Why a hill country symposium?

G.A. Kerr

7-9
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Monitoring and benchmarking farm performance

C.J. Mulvaney, D.J. Maccoll

87-93
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Consumers, farmers and the future of New Zealand hill country farming

A.K. Mcdermott, F.G. Scrimgeour

95-99
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