With support from Callaghan Innovation, we were delighted to welcome Bram Paans to LandWISE for the summer season. Bram has just completed a B Hort Sci and Massey University, and is returning to undertake Master of Horticultural Science studies in 2022.
Bram spent much of the summer sampling the asparagus and process crops we are researching, and doing many, many Nitrate Quick Tests. Here he is taking soil samples from a squash paddock. This was part of the Sustainable Vegetable Systems project being run by Vegetables Research and Innovation, Potatoes NZ and Agrilink. Our Asparagus Nitrate Best Management trial took Bram to Hastings, Manawatu and Mangaweka. And he was busy in Hawke’s Bay, sampling for our Best Nitrate Management for Process Crops project.
We were delighted to host Bram this season, and to show him some of the farming systems we work with and research methods we use.
Many thanks to Bram, and Callaghan Innovation for support via the R&D Experience grants programme.