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The Fertiliser Association of New Zealand promotes and encourages responsible and scientifically-based nutrient management.
Sam Carrick, Linda Lilburne, Gerard Grealish, Pierre Roudier, Veronica Penny, Nadia Laubscher - Landcare Research
Completed June 2020
The Association funded a study with Landcare to test whether spectral analysis would enable practitioners with limited soil expertise, to cost-effectively characterise a broad range of soil profile attributes at the farm or paddock scale. This would potentially allow cost effective quantifiable soil mapping at a farm scale - enabling better modelling in tools like Overseer.
The Association funded a study with Landcare to test whether spectral analysis would enable practitioners with limited soil expertise, to cost-effectively characterise a broad range of soil profile attributes at the farm or paddock scale. This would potentially allow cost effective quantifiable soil mapping at a farm scale - enabling better modelling in tools like Overseer.
"The study was a proof of concept to test the practicality of the approach," said Vera Power, Chief Executive of the Fertiliser Association of New Zealand.
"To successfully implement the approach algorithms would need to be developed at a national level to relate the spectral analysis with the soil variables."
The Fertiliser Association of New Zealand and Dairy NZ funded development of the Nutrient Management Adviser Certification Programme (NMACP). This industry-wide certification aims to ensure that advisers have the learning, experience and capability to give sound nutrient advice.
27 March 2024
FANZ is dedicated to funding research and developing New Zealand’s agricultural research capability by supporting PhD research such as the work of Massey University student Nicola Wilson who is undertaking research on ‘What Hot Water Extractable Carbon and Nitrogen can tell us about changes in labile soil Carbon and Nitrogen.’
1 March 2024
The Fertiliser Association of New Zealand recently updated its Fertiliser Use on New Zealand Dairy Farms booklet to ensure farmers get the best value from fertiliser applied and to align the advice with the Code of Practice for Fertiliser Nutrient Management.
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