From the field...

Kia ora <<First Name>>,

In this month's newsletter we have our latest webinar available for replay, a  new podcast and the invite for our upcoming pastoral webinar.

Jono Frew's latest podcast (episode #15) guests are the McKerchar family, Canterbury pedigree beef and sheep breeders.  The McKerchars discuss multi-generational farming, succession, and not being afraid to shift direction. It’s clear that being open to different perspectives lies at the heart of family relationships, and their evolving relationship with their soils and livestock.

In case you missed it, the recording from the arable webinar is now available. Following the release of our Regenerative arable transitions’ case study,  this webinar deep-dives into regenerative practices for arable production systems. Host Jono Frew is joined by two pioneers of regenerative arable cropping, David Birkett (Canterbury, NZ) and Clive Bailye (Staffordshire, UK).
More details on each below.


Photo credit Nigel Greenwood : "Winter wheat with the big ball of energy shining through"

It's the last few days to register for the upcoming pastoral webinar on Monday June 30 7pm register here. 
In this Quorum Sense webinar we will be focusing on grazing management and planning in New Zealand. We have Siobhain Griffen up first with a presentation on grazing principles and planning and then we will be hearing from Jason Sutherland, sheep and beef farmer from Central Otago and Sean Brosnahan, sheep and beef farmer from rural Gisborne. Join us as we hear from New Zealand farmers sharing their challenges, their learnings and of course their successes as they take on managing livestock and pastures to promote health, resilience and performance on farm.

Finally some insight into the QS teams' own regenerative goings-on :

Chloë Dear:
"We have a paddock with multi-species winter feed for the dairy sheep that has been undersown with a new diverse pasture ley. Meanwhile, the girls themselves are being mobbed grazed on another diverse pasture ley."

Deane Parker
"Time to dry the cows off and move over the road to our diverse wintering mix. We windrowed our crop in April to preserve the growth and give the kale, swedes and turnips an opportunity to flourish."