Hosted by Quorum Sense’s ‘Catch the Rain’ project
FREE to attend
Registration required.
Click here to register for ‘Catch the Rain’ webinar series - ‘Diverse Forage Crops (hosted on Zoom)
Join webinar host Sam Lang and guest farmers Duncan Humm and Dave Mitchell as they share how they (and other farmers) are successfully incorporating diverse forage crops into their farm systems.
Short presentations from Sam, David and Duncan will cover:
Different types of diverse forage crops (i.e. silage, summer feed, winter feed etc)
Benefits, risks and limitations
Selecting species and seeding rates
Establishment options
Managing diverse forage crops
Examples
Q&A
The webinar will also introduce the information available on Diverse Forage Crops via the Quorum Sense Toolbox, created in 2023 based on farmer contributions to a series of Quorum Sense farmer focus groups.
This webinar is funded by Beef + Lamb New Zealand as part of the ‘Catch the Rain’ project.
About ‘Catch the Rain’
Catch the Rain is a farmer-driven education, research and innovation project focused on improving rainfall infiltration and soil moisture retention on non-irrigated pastoral farms. Is it funded by Beef + Lamb New Zealand and led by Quorum Sense.
There are 40 farmers participating from Southland to the Manawatu that are developing, implementing and monitoring on-farm trials. Many of these trials are focused on testing different grazing techniques. For more about Catch the Rain visit www.quorumsense.org.nz/catch-the-rain-project.