February 29, 2024
ALT fosters sector connections for grower benefit
On the face of it, industry bodies for arable crops, fresh and process vegetables, onions, potatoes, sheep and beef might…
Programme News
February 28, 2024
A Lighter Touch February 2024 newsletter
Details of a new project seeking alternative controls for a pest for which the current management option is being phased…
January 31, 2024
A Lighter Touch January 2024 newsletter
Our January edition includes an update from a project seeking solutions for soilborne disease management, details of a number of…
January 31, 2024
Trials and research underway into soilborne diseases
The first seeds have been sown for a project seeking crop protection solutions to soilborne diseases costing New Zealand buttercup…
January 31, 2024
A Lighter Touch approach ‘way of the future’
The move to agroecological crop protection – sustainable farming that works with nature – is the way of the future,…
December 4, 2023
Progress report July to September 2023
Quarter 2 2023 sees the midway point of the A Lighter Touch Programme (ALT). Three and a half years in,…
