Welcome to AgFirst
AgFirst provides a wide range of services, primarily to the rural sector. We have New Zealand’s largest network of agricultural, horticultural and agricultural engineering consultants, providing high quality service and solutions to ensure New Zealand’s primary industries remain competitive on the world stage.The AgFirst group are also applying their skills to other sectors, for example traffic counting logistics, data capture logistics and engineering services to the health sector. If you have any challenge that requires an innovative solution then contact us!
Key Services
- Business planning and technical decision support
- Farm and orchard systems analysis
- Financial budgeting and monitoring
- Farm and orchard purchase and investment analysis
- Property supervision (Corporate, Maori Trust, absentee owners)
- Sourcing farm labour (all levels of responsibility)
- Whole farm planning (including Environmental planning)
- Group Discussion/facilitation
- Agribusiness projects
- Design and setup of effluent systems
- Traffic counting
- Fruit maturity testing and crop estimation
- Irrigation design and monitoring
- Dairy Effluent Waste Water Treatment and Recycling Systems
- Land Drainage
- Stock and Rural Community Water Reticulation
- Water Quality Treatment
- Resource Consent Application
- Horticultural Irrigation and Frost Protection
- Pastoral Irrigation
- Aquaculture Plant Design
- Waste Water Treatment Design and Management
Featured Projects
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DairyPush
The aim of the DairyPush programme is to have all participating farmers gain more farming and business skills as well and achieving a more profitable business. The target for the group was to increase the individual farm profit by 10% every year for 3 years.
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MAF Pipfruit Farm Monitoring
To provide information on the production and financial status of pipfruit growers, as well as trends and issues within the industry. Description of Project Our consultants visit a panel of growers each year to collect their financial and production data, which, in conjunction with MAF, is collated into an industry model for the ‘Hawke’s Bay Pipfruit Orchard’. As well as reporting actual data, a forecast is made for the year ahead, and a commentary report published to identify trends and issues affecting the sector.