DairyNZ senior scientist Dawn Dalley said she, other researchers and the farm team intend to discuss results and progress from four key areas.
They include a general update on how the hub’s farm systems performance is going this season, including milk production, reproduction, animal health and pasture performance.
They will also update those attending on last winter’s animal behaviour and soil condition study results.
This project was introduced at the hub’s field day in October last year.
"We also want to talk about our crop establishment minimum tillage demonstration that has been set up for winter 2021," Dr Dalley said.
The study compares conventional, direct drilling and strip tillage for fodder beet establishment and conventional and direct drill establishment for kale.
"We are interested to get feedback from farmers on what is proposed and what else we could look at and measure."
The fourth focus is on AgResearch’s environmental study, which uses suction cups in the ground to measure nitrogen flow as it moves down the soil profile in pasture and crop paddocks.
