Meat & Wool New Zealand has assembled a range of information that will be of assistance to farmers already in, or facing the possibility of a drought situation developing.
While much of the information that we have selected for this pack is of a management and technical nature we wish to stress the critical importance of farmers recognising the signs of stress and understanding how to cope.
To pull through farmers must keep their eye on the ball and maintain motivation and managing stress is a big part of this. In turn farmers will be better able to seize the opportunities that do arise and also make more reasoned adjustment of plans as circumstances change. We have included a publication that provides very helpful advice on stress.
The information in the Extreme Dry Planning Toolkit has been drawn from material available on our website click here or to download the Extreme Dry Toolkit document click here (note this is a large file and may take a while to download)
For a hard copy of the Extreme Dry Toolkit phone M&WNZ 0800 696 328
NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTRE SOIL MOISTURE MAPS
These maps relate to the day stated - updates can be obtained by following these steps:
1. Click on http://climate-explorer.niwa.co.nz/
2. Click on "Selection Level", and then choose "National"
3. When the products menu appears to the right of the map box, scroll down to "Soil Moisture Maps - Current Status" and click on this link 4. The first
item in the drop down menu will have the latest map. Click on "View" to open or save the map.
