Agriculture in the Christchurch Rebuild Presentation to Seismics and the City William Rolleston
Apr 15, 2017
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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Land Availability for Food Production
What will the world expect of us?
Reduced productionOR
More efficient/effectiveuse 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 SocietyScience/Agriculture
Advances
Digital Physical
Biological
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
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ChristchurchIP/Market
Making the Best Useof 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