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Otago Daily Times
4 days ago
- General
- Otago Daily Times
Call for awards entries
A call is out for southern farmers and growers to enter the 2026 Ballance Farm Environment Awards. New Zealand Farm Environment Trust general manager Sarah Harris said the awards celebrated progress, not perfection, and the sharing of ideas across sectors and regions. "Farmers learning from farmers." Entries close in October. Judges will begin visiting farms later this year and regional awards events will be held in March and April next year. One of the 11 regional winners will take home the Gordon Stephenson Trophy and be crowned the National Ambassador for Sustainable Farming and Growing at a ceremony in Christchurch in July next year. — ALLIED MEDIA
Otago Daily Times
4 days ago
- Business
- Otago Daily Times
Genetics tool popular
Otago farmers have been using the nProve Beef genetics tool to make better breeding decisions and drive genetic improvement in their herds, Beef + Lamb New Zealand says. Farming excellence general manager Dan Brier said sessions on the nProve platform surged by 76% from March to June 2025 compared with the same period last year. The top five regions using the tool were Otago, greater Auckland, Canterbury, greater Wellington and Manawatū-Whanganui. Session growth in the period increased from 5069 to 8902, mostly due to the launch of nProve Beef, which attracted 3800 sessions, making up 41% of total traffic, he said. The nProve Beef tool was a key output of the Informing New Zealand Beef programme, which aimed to enable the uptake of improved genetics across the beef industry by providing farmers with practical tools tailored to New Zealand farming systems, Mr Brier said. "The response to nProve Beef has exceeded expectations." — ALLIED MEDIA
