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
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Featured Projects
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Hawke’s Bay Winegrowers Climate Change Project
This is a 3 year project looking at climate change in relation to the Hawke’s Bay wine industry, from technology transfer, through to mitigation options, and business opportunities.
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Pipfruit NZ National Crop Estimate
The crop estimate is compiled using data collected nationwide from growers and industry in conjunction with undertaking counts and measurements on a range of orchards, and using our consultants’ knowledge and experience to accurately estimate the export volume of pipfruit produced at the end of the season by variety and region.
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