Dr William Rolleston, President, NZ Federated Farmers

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Seismics and the City 18 March 2016 - Shaping Canterbury's Future Now Sacred Cows v The Clobbering Machine? Urban/rural interdependence, science and innovation in Canterbury.

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Agriculture in the Christchurch
Rebuild
Presentation to
Seismics and the City
William Rolleston

We Live in an Age of Unprecedented
Scientific Discovery

Issues
• Population
• Land
• Food Security
• Food safety
• Environment
– Climate Change
– Water
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ha/person
1961 1999 2050
Year
Land Availability for Food Production

What will the world expect of us?
Reduced production
OR
More efficient/effective
use of resources
What contribution can Canterbury
make to address these issues and help
ourselves?

Rural/Urban Divide
• Water
– Dirty Dairying
• Factory Farming
– Pigs, hens, cattle
• Transpower
• ETS
• Tenure Review
• Genetic Modification
• 1080
Science In Society
Science/Agriculture

Digital
• Robotics
– Driverless tractors
– Milking
– Drones
– Swarm Technology/Game Theory
• Real Time Monitoring/Control
– Soil
• Moisture, Nutrients/Fertility
– Animals
• Temp, pH, location, fences
– Rivers
• Flows, nutrients
– Consent rules

Physical
• Water
– Storage/Harvesting
• Opuha, Coleridge, Rangatata South, Central Plains
– Usage
• Hydoelectric
• Plant efficiency
– Repositioning
• Hunter Downs, Burke’s Pass
• Landsborough

Biological
• Conventional Breeding
– Selection Breeding
– Chemical/Radiation Mutagenesis
– Embryo Rescue, Protoplast fusion
• DNA revolution
– Marker Assisted Breeding
• Conventional, Organic
– Transgenics
– Cisgenics
– Gene Editing

Biological
• Productivity Environmental Footprint
– Photosynthesis (C3->C4)
– Nitrogen, Water,
• Production Diversity
– Sheep milking
– Seed production
– Biofuels
– Niche Products
• Pharmaceutical/industrial/nutritional
• System Diversity
– Conventional, Organic, Biotech

Christchurch
• Commerce, Manufacturing
• Market Place
• Intellectual Property
– Electronics
– Software
– Engineering
– Lincoln Hub, University of Canterbury

Rural Canterbury
• Agriculture
• Processing
– Dairy
• Darfield, Clandeboye, Studholme,
• Synlait, Oceania
– Sheep and Beef
• Alliance, SFF
• ANSCO, AFFCO
– Other
• Farmers Mill, Mt Cook Salmon, Heartland, SPS
• Ports
– Timaru, Lyttelton

Farms
Regional
Community
(Processing)
Production
Production
Regional
Community
(Processing)
Regional
Community
(Processing)
Regional
Community
(Processing)
Regional
Community
(Processing)
Regional
Community
(Processing)
Regional
Community
(Processing)
Regional
Community
(Processing)
Christchurch
IP/Market

Making the Best Use
of our Resources
• Infrastucture
– Transport
• Roads, Ports
– Digital
• Fibre, Broadband
– Water
– Education/Research
• Skills, Public/Science
• Regulation
– Enabling
– Adaptable

Thank You
A Strong Canterbury
A Strong Christchurch

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