Hosted by the Quorum Sense Catch the Rain Project
FREE to attend
Registration is essential - tickets are limited!
Click this link to register for the Canterbury ‘Digging into rainfall infiltration’ workshop
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