Landcorp - Crown Ownership Monitoring Unit

INFORMED FARMING2009/10HIGHLIGHTS33,091 DAIRYCOWS ON41 DAIRY UNITSTHROUGHOUTNEW ZEALANDA FURTHER 150AREAS WEREIDENTIFIED FORPROTECTION,614 HECTARESWERE FENCEDAND PROTECTED2,735 WAIHORAROMNEY EWESTHIS YEARINDICATEDA POTENTIALLAMBING RATE OF210 PER CENTBLAIRS DAIRY DEVELOPMENT COMPLETEDENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONDATA COLLECTION AND SCIENCELANDCORP HAS NOW COMPLETED the450-hectare Blairs development on the Wekacomplex, near Greymouth. The fifth dairyunit on Weka, Blairs has a state-of-the-artdairy shed and will be milking around 850cows in the current season. Weka is on trackto become a self-sufficient complex with a5,000-cow herd by spring 2011.LANDCORP CONTINUES TO PLACE HIGHIMPORTANCE on environmental protectionand sustainable land use. Conservationvalues are factored in to farm management,with areas of particular natural significanceset aside from production wherever this ispracticable.GENETIC PROGRESS IN LIVESTOCK IS COREBUSINESS FOR LANDCORP. We use complexbreeding values (BVs) for the selection ofanimals that will strengthen economicallydesiredtraits in future generations of sheep,cattle and deer. Work on the development andapplication of BVs is ongoing, on the farm andin the laboratory.2