Carbon Positive Year 4 – financials, nitrogen & yields
Olivia Webster is the Project Manager at LandWISE. She leads the Carbon Positive trial, a six-year project comparing different cropping systems, with a strong focus on improving soil health and building soil carbon. She oversees trial coordination, field operations, and data collection. Olivia completed a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Environmental Science at Massey University, with a focus on soils and earth science, which brings a valuable perspective to her work in the horticulture sector.
Olivia will give an overview of the Carbon Positive trial and outline the different management of the three treatments; Conventional, Hybrid, and Regenerative, during the fourth cropping season, in which butternut pumpkins were grown. She will present gross margin outcomes and describe how reduced nitrogen inputs in the Regenerative treatment maintained comparable butternut yields.
