Dryland Pastures Research makes a special effort to turn research into on-farm systems and actions.
We do this in person at field days. You can review the publications we’ve put out for every field day we’ve run. Or look at the common questions we get. We also produce blogs and videos on a range of topics.
Resources
Measuring yield on-farm
The Soil Health Project
Funded by the TR Ellett Agricultural Research Trust the Soil Health Project, led by Dr Sally Price and collaborators Prof Jon Hickford, Dr Alistair Black and Prof Derrick Moot, leverages the RADE experiment to create practical hands-on tools for everyone to evaluate soil health.
- Aug 2026 Embracing Earthworms (PDF 1.2 MB): This guide explains the important of earthworms as a soil health indicator and outlines how to count them at home or on-farm.
BLNZ Factsheets
Our research has been used to prepare these factsheets, available from the Beef + Lamb New Zealand Knowledge Hub, and summarise our field research into "farm ready" messages to help with management and planning:
- Animal production from annual clover/plantain based pastures
- Animal production from lucerne based pastures
- Liveweight production of sheep grazing dryland pastures
- Pasture mixes for dryland farming systems
- Annual clovers enhance animal production from summer dry pastures
- Production and persistence of dryland pastures
- Using subterranean clover
- Grazing management to encourage sub clover in dryland pastures
- Subterranean clover tolerance to waterlogging
- Broadleaf weed control in emerging subterranean clover
- Lucerne establishment (spring): Weed control options
- Lucerne: Winter weed control options
- Explaining pasture water use
Field days coming up soon
We'll list what we've got coming up here by date and location
