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What? Desertification in the Catlins?

I can't believe what I saw today - the first stages of desertification in rainy, temperate New Zealand. How is that possible? When I...

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Manage for What You Want

Are you stuck on the browntop treadmill going nowhere? Shifting Pasture Dominance Away from Browntop by Managing for Diverse Swards...

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Pastoral farmers - You Were On the Right Track without Planting a Single Sunflower

M, So nice to see your livestock looking so well and with high quality pasture in front of them today. We talked about diverse cover...

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Farm Regeneration is about Results

A lot of potential pasture growth and money is being left on the table on overgrazed farms and it may be why New Zealand soils are not...

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Is Browntop Creeping into your Pasture?

Last week a friend asked why I thought browntop was creeping into her timothy/red clover paddocks. On my farm, timothy and red clover did...

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What We have Learned about Optimal Pasture Recovery in New Zealand

When I started my regenerative farming journey in 2008, I allowed my pastures to recover too long. Ian Mitchell-Innes came to my rescue...

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Adaptive grazing management - building resilience into NZ grazing systems

"In this Quorum Sense webinar we focused on grazing management and planning in a New Zealand landscape. We have Siobhan Griffin up first...

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Hamish Galloway: Achieving High Quality Dairy Pasture with Mob Grazing

Hamish Galloway participated in Next level Grazing's Pasture Recovery Planning seminar in July 2020 and is sharing how he achieves...

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Celebrating pastoral farming with Siobhan Griffin

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The Karner Blue Butterfly

By regenerating the grassland on her family's farm, Siobhan saw an explosion in bird life and other wildlife on the farm and was rewarded...

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It Starts with the Soil

The Cyldevale dairy farmers needed a hand to develop plans for mob grazing and stock density. Podcast