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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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.
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"Farm Management 101" Workshop
These are a series of 2-day workshops in 2011 on “Farm Management 101” designed for up-skilling new regional council land managers on how farmers think and make decisions. They aim to give participants an appreciation of the various activities involved in pastoral farming (with a focus on sheep and beef farming) in New Zealand, the business aspects of farming, and an understanding of ‘farming people’. The workshop is a mix of classroom time and a field trip to a local farm.
These workshops are useful for businesses where staff are dealing with farmer clients and need a basic understanding of their clients. AgFirst can run this workshop for groups – please contact Carla Emms for further details .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 06 872 7089.