Sustainable Farming Fund Resource Library
Useful Resources Developed from SFF Projects
This section contains links to resources such as booklets, facts sheets, posters, bulletins, best practice management guidelines, etc.
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- Alternative Land Use
- Animal Health
- Climate Change
- Environment Education
- Farm and Farm Forestry
- Farm Production
- Help with Decision Making
- Horticulture
- Irrigation
- Nutrient Management
- Organics
- Skills and Training
- Soils
- Waste Management
- Water Quality
Alternative Land Use
- Cypress Handbook Best Practice with Farm Forestry Timber Species
- Energy farming with willow in New Zealand [PDF 3.8MB]
- Forestry to Farming
- Integrating NZ flax into land management systems [1.1M PDF]
- Just How Much Totara is Growing in Northland? [215K PDF]
- Paulownia, Forest Research Bulletin no. 231
- Practical set of web-based forestry decision management tools [410K PDF]
- Pruning and Thinning Farm-grown Totara [1.7M PDF]
Animal Health
- Cost and impact of Footrot and the Footrot gene marker test in NZ [614K PDF]
- Glossary of terms relating to diagnostic tests for tuberculosis and Johne’s Disease in deer [ 60K PDF]
- Johne’s Disease: A large epidemiological study underway [ 50K PDF]
- Johne’s Disease in NZ farmed deer [ 59K PDF]
- Update on Johne’s research group activities and current research [195K PDF]
- Wormwise
Climate Change
- Adaptation, change management and the psychology of change [ 36K PDF]
- Adapting to climate change in eastern NZ-June 2005 [ 77K PDF]
- Adapting to climate change in eastern NZ-October 2004 [834K PDF]
Environment Education
- Environmental management system for the NZ Pork Industry Board
- Getting smart with nutrients
- Growing greener grass
- Low impact tracks and races
- Managing natural features on farm
- NZ Environmental Code of Practice for Plantation Forestry [PDF 3.9MB]
- Waterways on farms
- West Coast dairy farmer management practices and responses
- Wise use of N-Fertiliser
Farm and Farm Forestry
- Canterbury Broom Group Booklet [PDF 901KB]
- Energy farming with willow in New Zealand [PDF 3.8MB]
- Farming with Native Trees: A Guide for Farmers from Northland to Waikato [966K PDF]
- Growing Poplar and Willow Trees on Farms [1.3M PDF]
- Just How Much Totara is Growing in Northland? [215K PDF]
- Pruning and Thinning Farm-grown Totara [1.7M PDF]
Farm Production
- Agriculture Research Group on Sustainability
- Broom Leaf Beetle and the Biological Control of Weeds [230K PDF]
- Clover management in the NZ pastoral industries-January 2006 [490K PDF]
- Clover management in the NZ pastoral industries-October 2005 [777K PDF]
- Dexcel newsletter: Doing it Once a Day Issue 1 [525K PDF]
- Dexcel newsletter: Doing it Once a Day Issue 2 [265K PDF]
- Dexcel newsletter: Doing it Once a Day Issue 3 [325K PDF]
- Dexcel newsletter: Doing it Once a Day Issue 4 [499K PDF]
- Grazing of the wheat grain crop [1.5M PDF]
- Northland Kikuyu Action Group Booklets
- Practices for minimising nitrate leaching during winter [ 63K PDF]
- Profitable beef production
- Wheat calculator-a tool to optimise production [115K PDF]
- White Clover growth and development [ 43K PDF]
- Yellow Bristle Grass - The Ute Guide [1.7M PDF]
Help with Decision Making
- Advancing sustainable management systems in agriculture and horticulture
- Crop-recording with CropRecord and CropAdvice [259K PDF]
- Growsafe
- Practical toolkit to resolve animal welfare incidents [171K PDF]
- REDIS initiative review [1.6M PDF]
- Weather Fact Sheets
Horticulture
- Are you making the most of the nitrogen available in your soil? [2.5M PDF]
- Anthracnose in feijoa [1.7M PDF]
- Anthracnose on strawberries [1.9M PDF]
- Aphid watch
- A water and nitrogen budget for Hort16A kiwifruit vines [1.8M PDF]
- Best management recommendations for control of phytophthora cinnamomi [2.0M PDF]
- Controlling Plant Growth series:
- Crop-recording with CropRecord and CropAdvice [259K PDF]
- Energy in Greenhouses
- Fertiliser and 'Gold' kiwifruit production systems [3.2M PDF]
- Grey mould of strawberries [973K PDF]
- Improving persimmon taste [1.6M PDF]
- Rhizopus fruit rot [2.3M PDF]
- Sustainable management of irrigation and nitrogen in Hort16A [1.3M PDF]
- Tailored nutrition for ZESPRI™ GOLD ('Hort16A'): fruit, leaf and cane nutrition studies under modified nutrient regimes [1.1M PDF]
- The sustainable use of nitrogen on Hort16A [1.8M PDF]
Irrigation
- Improving the efficiency of effluent infiltration
- Irrigation decision making [161K PDF]
- Irrigation efficiency gaps [306K PDF]
- Irrigation in brief [214K PDF]
- Sustainable irrigation research [2.2M PDF]
- The Ritso Society
- Water for the Waimea Plains
Nutrient Management
- Aerial spreadmark poster [ 57K PDF]
- Alternative dairy effluent application methods
- Best dairying catchments [879K PDF]
- Best management practices for N-fertiliser use [154K PDF]
- Code of practice and guidelines for nutrient discharge
- Code of practice for the aerial application of fertiliser [1.5M Microsoft PowerPoint]
- Comparison of response efficiency of N-fertilisers [174K PDF]
- Effects of N-fertiliser on clover growth and N-fixation [140K PDF]
- Effects of N-fertiliser on soil pH [142K PDF]
- Effects of variability in fertiliser application on production economics [904K Microsoft PowerPoint]
- Energy farming with willow in New Zealand [PDF 3.8MB]
- Minimising muck, Maximising money-Guidelines
- Minimising muck, Maximising money-Case studies
- Minimising muck maximising money [3.7M PDF]
- OVERSEER Nutrient Budget Programme [210K PDF]
- Practices for minimising nitrate leaching during winter [ 63K PDF]
- Top tips for effluent irrigators [348K PDF]
- Wheat calculator-a tool to optimise production [115K PDF]
- Water quality and maintenance [191K PDF]
- Which N-fertiliser should I use? [255K PDF]
- Wise use of N-fertiliser
Organics
- Central Canterbury Organic Growers Technology Transfer Group: newsletter [ 41K PDF]
- Central Canterbury Organic Growers Technology Transfer Group: Soil foodweb seminar [ 26K PDF]
- Comparing cover crops [ 44K PDF]
- Cover crop mulching, herbicides and organics [ 22K PDF]
- Mechanical weed management [ 29K PDF]
- Mixed pastures for organic livestock and cropping systems [ 32K PDF]
- OGRMG: Cover crop seminar [ 25K PDF]
- OGRMG: Comparing several cover crops [ 67K PDF]
- OGRMG: Holistic grazing management field day [ 17K PDF]
- OGRMG: Pastures field day [ 28K PDF]
- Organics in Canterbury newsletter 26 [511K PDF]
- Organics in Canterbury newsletter 28 [406K PDF]
- Organics in Canterbury newsletter 32 [436K PDF]
- Organics in Canterbury newsletter 30 [636K PDF]
- Organics in Canterbury newsletter 31 [365K PDF]
- Sustainable animal production seminar [ 28K PDF]
Skills and Training
- Growsafe
- How to run successful on-farm-trials - some helpful templates
- Practical toolkit to resolve animal welfare incidents [171K PDF]
Soils
- Land management index project [171K PDF]
- Minimising muck, Maximising money: Case studies
- Minimising muck, Maximising money: Guidelines
- Minimising muck, Maximising money: Guidelines [3.7M PDF]
- Practices for minimising nitrate leaching during winter [ 63K PDF]
- Soil quality monitoring for blackcurrants in Canterbury [842K PDF]
- Vineyard mid row management [264K PDF]
- Wheat calculator-a tool to optimise production [115K PDF]
Waste Management
Water Quality
Contact for Enquiries
Fund Administrator
Sustainable Farming Fund
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
PO Box 2526
Wellington
Tel: 0800 100 087
Fax: 04 894 0741
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