Hosted by the Quorum Sense Catch the Rain Project

Registration for this event is essential

Register here - tickets are limited!

Free

Download the workshop booklet handout here

About the event

This workshop is an opportunity to:

• Learn about rainfall infiltration and retention on pastoral soils and the management factors that impact these,

• Develop and practice your soil and pasture monitoring skills,

• Connect and bounce ideas with other farmers,

• Gain the knowledge and skills to join the Catch the Rain Project (if you want to).

Event outline:

• 12:30pm Welcome

• Overview - Catch the Rain project and talk on the drivers of rainfall infiltration & retention

• Field demonstration - Setting up monitoring transects, Visual Soil Assessments (VSAs) etc

• Measuring and comparing impacts of different management - practicing VSAs in small groups

• Talk - Designing simple on-farm trials

• Discussion - Practices / systems that can improve infiltration and soil moisture retention

• 4pm Wrap up

Speakers / Facilitators:

Sam Lang - Catch the Rain Project Lead

Dr Charles Merfield - Catch the Rain

Greer Manderson - Quorum Sense

This event is a collaboration between the ‘Catch the Rain’ Project (Quorum Sense led, and Beef + Lamb New Zealand funded) and the Quorum Sense FERN project (funded by the Ministry for Primary Industries Sustainable Land Use Extension Fund).

For more information about the Catch the Rain Project, visit www.quorumsense.org.nz/catch-the-rain-project