Pāmu announces Open Farm Days 2024 – 2025
As part of our commitment to the wider New Zealand agricultural community, Pāmu has a role to play in opening farm gates and sharing what we do with industry, farmers and other stakeholders.
Farming excellence is at the core of our strategy. This year Pāmu is planning a selection of Open Farm Days to showcase and share some key themes across farming excellence, including organic dairy production, the challenges of pasture and parasite management, feed conversion and methane reduction, dairy-beef integration, and showcasing health, wellbeing and safety.
Open Farm dates are:
Wednesday 30 October 2024 | Moutoa | Lower North Island
Organics
Register: https://moutoa.eventbrite.co.nz
Since 2016 Pāmu has been investing in organic dairy farming. Today we have a total of 11 farms and three runoffs, based in Wairākei near Taupō, and Moutoa in the lower North Island. Following our packed-out Open Farm at Earnslaw last year, this year we are opening the gates to the Manawatū Moutoa Complex.
Wednesday 29 January 2025 | Te Anau basin | Lower South Island
Deer on our Te Anau farms
Register: https://TeAnaudeer.eventbrite.co.nz
Showcasing three of our hallmark deer farms, Haycocks, Mararoa, and Lynmore, we’ll discuss how these integrated systems work harmoniously to make deer farming a cornerstone of the region’s agricultural production, an area which Pāmu is committed to now and into the future. Insights into innovative practices, sustainable farming systems, and the critical role deer play in our business and the local economy.
Wednesday 12 February 2025 | St Kilda Wairakei | Central North Island
Cattle feed efficiency at our new methane testing facility
Register: https://stkildamethane.eventbrite.co.nz
Pāmu has been at the forefront of research work to provide breeding values for methane in sheep. These are now part of our stud sheep breeding programme trait mix. Our new central North Island measuring facility's purpose is to work towards doing similar for our stud beef and dairy-beef breeding programmes for improved feed conversion efficiency and reduced methane emissions going through to our commercial farms and the wider New Zealand beef and dairy-beef sector.
Weekend 16/17 March 2025 (tbc) | Pinta | Central North Island
NZ Open Farms – building rural-urban connection
Register: https://www.openfarms.co.nz/
New Zealand Open Farms is a nationwide initiative to connect urban New Zealand to their food producers. Last year our Eyrewell dairy farm had hundreds of visitors, this year it’s the turn of dairy farm Pinta.
Wednesday 16 April 2025 Weka | West Coast South Island
Dairy beef, dairy-livestock integration
Register: https://weka.eventbrite.co.nz
Pāmu is aiming to rear all calves born on its dairy farms by 2030. This ambitious target means harnessing genetics, experience, and systems changes at scale.
Date TBC - Northland farm TBC
Wednesday 14 May 2025 | Rangitāiki |Central North Island
Health, Wellbeing and Safety showcase
Register: https://pamuhsw.eventbrite.co.nz
Health, well-being and safety are at the heart of the way we operate at Pāmu. We aim to ensure all our people and contractors get home safely every night and we have industry-best practice programmes and systems in place to ensure safe behaviour is embedded in everything we do. With the introduction of our critical risk framework, we have much to share with industry about our initiatives to look after the most important part of our business – our people.
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