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