Vol. 87 (2025)

Volume 87 (2025)

• Reflections on the past and links to the future

  Chris Smith

  7-9

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• Climate Change Adaptations on Sheep and Beef Farms: A case study investigation

  Phil Journeaux, Derrick Moot, Anita Wreford

  11-18

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• Pathways to climate resilience: Adaptation of dairy farm systems in response to climate changes

  Callum Eastwood, Elena Minnee, Anita Wreford

  19-27

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• Vulnerability and resilience of farm systems in the Gisborne-Tairawhiti Region in the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle

  Xiaomeng Lucock, Nic Lees

  29-36

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• Future Northland Pastures: 1. Introduction and Temperate Forages

  Tracy Dale

  37-41

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• Future Northland Pastures: 2. C4 grasses and subtropical legumes for a future Northland

  Warren King, Shirley Nichols, Jim Crush

  43-49

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• Future Northland Pastures: 3. Potential woody forages for Northland

  Katherine Tozer, Grant Douglas, Grant Rennie

  51-60

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• Future Northland Pastures 4. Northland arthropod pests and ‘sleeper pests’ that will increase in response to climate change

  Sofia Orre-Gordon, Joanne Jensen

  61-69

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• Future Northland Pastures: 5. Potential sleeper weeds of pastoral systems in Northland, New Zealand

  Christopher Buddenhagen, Zachary Ngow

  71-77

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• Is soil fertility a factor limiting pasture production and persistence in New Zealand?

  Douglas Edmeades, Robert McBride

  79-85

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• An overview of the cost-effectiveness of nitrogen leaching mitigation strategies based on marginal abatement cost for eighteen dairy farms in Hauraki and Horizons regions

  Taisekwa Lordwell Chikazhe, Pierre, Peter

  85-94

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• The challenges of monitoring insect sleeper pests: the example of Spodoptera litura in Aotearoa New Zealand

  Joanne Jensen, Michael Clearwater, Andrew Barnes, Sofia Orre-Gordon

  95-106

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• Will wide-spaced silvo-pastoral plantings maintain soil carbon stocks?

  Rachel Cole, Michael Dodd, Marta Alfaro, Emma Noakes, Dimetri Triadis

  107-115

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• Changes in soil fertility, biology and organic carbon under contrasting phosphorus fertiliser and sheep grazing management

  Alec Mackay, Ronaldo Vibart, Nicole Schon, Mike Dodd, Franco Bilotto, Kathryn Hutchinson, Rachel Cole, Emma Noakes, Sarah Rosanowski

  117-124

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• Nutrient and contaminant profiles of soil, herbage and dung from sheep grazed pastures with varying phosphorus fertiliser histories

  Ronaldo Eduardo Vibart, Alec Mackay, Brian Devantier, Paul Maclean, Sarah Rosanowski, Emma Noakes, Rachel Cole

  125-131

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• Performance across 60 years of the Dairy Economic Survey

  Benjamin Marmont, Mubashir Qasim, David Silva-Villacorta

  133-140

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• Case studies of alternative wintering practices in sheep, beef and deer farming in Southern New Zealand

  David Stevens, Marie J. Casey, Matt Canton, Justin Davie, Dan Frew, Brett Frew, Byron Vollweiller, Nick Wadworth, Alexis Wadworth

  141-150

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• Comparing autumn and spring calving systems: A farm system study on a commercial-scale dairy farm in coastal Taranaki

  Marianne Read, Magdalena Bremer, Debbie McCallum, Linda Cruickshank

  151-160

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• Sheep liveweight and dry matter production from Year 3 of the Regenerative Agriculture Dryland Experiment

  Luke Robb, Alistair Black, Annamaria Mills, Derrick Moot

  161-173

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• Laboratory measurements of Aporrectodea caliginosa earthworm counts using qPCR in agricultural soils

  Kyle Devey, Roger Hill, Sara Loeffen, Nicole Schon

  175-181

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• Implementing deferred grazing on New Zealand sheep, beef and dairy farms

  Katherine Tozer, Tracy Dale, Graeme Doole, Chris Glassey, Mark Williams, Aaron Meikle, elena Minnee

  183-191

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• Does wintering on diverse pastures or kale crop affect N loss risk? Findings from a case study of a commercial dairy farm in Methven Pasture and crop dairy wintering

  Racheal H. Bryant, Jeremy Casey, Eva Harris, Holly Williamson, Lisa Box, Ryan Barlow, Paige Beckett, Claire Phyn, Stewart Ledgard

  193-201

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• Gene editing to provide traits of value in pasture and forage plants

  John Caradus, Marissa Roldan, Kim Richardson, Nick Roberts, Richard Johnson, Christine Voisey, Linda Johnson

  203-215

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• Pasture biomass mapping in hill country using remote sensing and geospatial tools

  Duy Tran, Alec Mackay, Mike Dodd, Rachel Cole, Emma Noakes

  217-225

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• Forage yield, botanical composition and soil characteristics of a species diversity by harvest height experiment in Hawke’s Bay

  Beverley Thomson, Noel Smith, Kay Ward, Paul Muir

  227-238

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• Brix was not a good indicator of pasture quality

  Beverley Thomson, Noel Smith, Kay Ward, Guy Hamilton, Paul Muir

  239-243

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• A comparison of two pasture growth models with observed data from Central Waikato from 2000 to 2020

  Wayne Hofmann, Mark Neal, Pierre Beukes, Lydia Farrell

  245-254

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• Spring growth of lucerne (Medicago sativa L.) after different winter grazing regimes

  Lauren Jones, Annamaria Mills, Derrick Moot

  255-261

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• Oversowing arrowleaf clover on North Island East Coast dryland hill country – results from two farm case studies

  Rob, Pete, Noel Smith, Beverley Thomson, Paul Muir

  263-268

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• Looking at the past to prepare ahead: adapting Red Clover for future New Zealand climates

  Angus Heslop, Andrew Griffiths, Rainer Hofmann, Zulfi Jahufer, John Ford, Anna Larking, Rachael Ashby, Charles Hefer, Jessica OConnor

  260-276

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• On-farm prediction of red clover yields.

  Laura Keenan, Anna Mills, Derrick Moot

  277-284

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• Lucerne (Medicago sativa L.) yields were unaffected by phosphorus fertility level under grazing in a dryland farmlet experiment

  Lauren Jones, Annamaria Mills, Alistair Black, Derrick Moot

  285-292

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• Implementing Freshwater Farm Plans - A drystock case study

  Gina Lucci, Frances Williamson, Toni White, Tracy Nelson

  293-299

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• Using plantain (Plantago lanceolata) with other on-farm strategies to meet N loss reduction targets while maintaining profit in Rotorua Lake catchment

  Kate Fransen, Lydia Farrell, Nicole Wheadon, Felix Rodriguez-Firpo, Ina Pinxterhuis

  301-313

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• Catchment level modelling of dairy farm adaptation to meet nitrogen loss targets and the value of including plantain as a mitigation

  Lydia Farrell, Pierre Beukes, Ryan Mills

  315-322

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• Long-term climate variability in Waikato and Manawatu: Have pasture growth, performance, and resilience conditions changed?

  Eru Tait-Jamieson, Danny Donaghy, Andrew Cartmill, Jon Proctor

  323-333

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• Long-term impacts of land use change at Whatawhata: the story continues

  Michael Dodd, Andrew Hughes, Bill Carlson, Grant Rennie

  335-343

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• Challenges in using on-farm animal data for pasture dry matter intake calculations

  Wayne Hofmann, Mark Neal, Simon Woodward

  345-353

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