We are delighted to present our 2018 Platinum Sponsors, BASF Crop Protection, Hawke’s Bay Regional Council and Power Farming.
BASF Crop Protection and Hawke’s Bay Regional Council are long term loyal supporters of LandWISE and their contributions are highly valued. Power Farming is a new Platinum Sponsor in 2018 and we look forward to our relationship with them.
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has been part of LandWISE since 1999, when some farmers, scientists and industry people got together to try and improve soil quality, stop wind erosion and improve irrigation efficiency and of course yields. Our Mission doesn’t change so much, but the tools to help us along the way certainly have!
BASF Crop Protection has been a foundation sponsor of the LandWISE MicroFarm as well as our annual conferences. They show ongoing enthusiasm to help us help farmers and that is greatly appreciated.
Our new Platinum Sponsor is Power Farming. We’ve had help from them in several of our projects, most recently with the Canterbury field work and field events that were part of our FAR/SFF Fertiliser Spreader Calibration project. The Power Farming catalogue matches well with our conference delegates’ and members’ interests.
AGMARDT has funded travel expenses to bring many international speakers to our Annual Conferences, as well as several projects including “Soils First Farmers” and “Validating Field Robotics“.
We are grateful to our long-term Gold Sponsors, Horizons Regional Council, Process Vegetables NZ and Vegetables NZ, and Ballance AgriNutrients.
Horizons Regional Council has supported our conference field sessions for a number of years and is a key partner for some of our major research and extension projects including “Integrated Storm Water Management” and “Holding it Together” and the new “Future Proofing Vegetable Production” SFF project.
Process Vegetables NZ and Vegetables NZ have been conference sponsors for many years. As the levy funded industry research bodies they represent the farmers in our membership and nationally. These bodies also co-fund research projects including a number of our Sustainable Farming Fund initiatives.
Ballance AgriNutrients is one of our key MicroFarm sponsors, a long term conference sponsor, and has joined to co-fund the new “Future Proofing Vegetable Production” SFF project.
Our conference delegates are well supported by our meal sponsors and trade displays. In addition, Apatu Farms sponsors high school students to attend, and McCain Foods and Heinz-Wattie’s are sponsoring keynote Sarah Pethybridge‘s travel. Thanks everyone!
