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Source: NZ Groundspread Fertilisers Association
Groundspread NZ is hosting a training day for Association members in Wellington this winter.
The annual Groundspread NZ winter conference was cancelled earlier this year due to ongoing uncertainty around Covid-19 restrictions. This year would have marked the 65 th annual conference for the Association, who was forced to cancel the event for the first time ever in 2020 due to the pandemic.
With an awards gala now an established part of this annual event, it was decided that celebrating success in the industry still needed to forge ahead. This awards gala will take place at the InterContinental Hotel in Wellington on Friday 8 th July.
Prior to the awards gala, Groundspread NZ will host their AGM and training day for members at the same venue.
The workshops on offer at this training day include:
Health and Safety Culture: an interactive session to help share processes and tools as well as personal insights that will challenge the attendees to consider what they can do to change their own behaviours and lead a change in culture that delivers improved safety outcomes.
COWS (care, ownership, wellbeing, and safety): a session aimed to help people identify scheduled time within their busy lives to re-charge, reset and be better for those around them.
Environmental: understanding precision application and the regulatory changes for how fertiliser is applied, recorded, and reported. How to navigate these changes to ensure rural business are thriving. How you can achieve optimal results in productivity whilst caring for the environment in an ever-changing, fast-moving landscape. This workshop will be interactive and allow for open dialogue and participation.
Reading financials: effectively chairing a meeting – any meeting. Tips and tricks for getting the best out of a room filled with many different personalities.
Innovation: looking at the breakthrough technology Spikey® that detects and treats urine patches to reduce nitrate leaching and capture urine N to grow more pasture.
These workshops were made possible through the ongoing support of the Groundspread NZ Award sponsors Ballance Agri-Nutrients, Graymont, Ravensdown, and Keith Andrews Trucks.
Notes: Groundspread NZ (NZGFA) was established in 1956 to promote and protect the interests of both individuals and companies involved in the groundspread fertiliser industry. The organisation promotes Spreadmark, the industry standard, and encourages its members to achieve Spreadmark-accreditation. Spreadmark is a quality assurance programme that guarantees accurate fertiliser distribution by trained operators using certified spreading machinery and a management system that puts economic and environmental farmer/grower outcomes first.
