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Monday, 15 February 2021, 12:10 pm
Farmers, scientists and rural industry leaders are
meeting in Waikato later this year to start mapping out a
secure future for New Zealand pastures.
The Resilient
Pastures Symposium (RPS), organised by the NZ Grassland
Association (NZGA), comes 10 years after the association’s
landmark Pasture Persistence Symposium.
With
agriculture currently earning more than 40c in every NZ
export dollar, those behind the event say pasture – and
innovative thinking about its prospects in coming years -
has never been more relevant.
Pasture is a significant
global advantage for NZ, but faces increasing pressure from
climate change, environmental regulation and social and