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August 30, 2024
Our Land and Water has now ended.
Our mission was to preserve the most fundamental treasures of Aotearoa – its land and water – while producing value from those same treasures.
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Interactive Tool
Map of Total Sediment Yield and Reduction Potential
An interactive map shows the total sediment yield and the potential for mitigation strategies to reduce sediment losses from land to water by 2035. The…
Video
Futureproofing Māori Land Trusts (video series)
Succession planning is challenging for many farms, but multi-enerational dynamics, geographically dispersed whanau, and complex governance structures add extra challenges for Māori
Technical Report
Better Wintering – West Coast
The West Coast wintering project’s goal was to provide West Coast farmers with specific information on the range of applicable wintering system options alongside considerations…
Technical Report
SedNetNZ, SLUI and contaminant generation. Part 2: Nitrogen, phosphorus and E. coli
Horizons Regional Council (HRC) requested Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research (MWLR) to update SedNetNZ for the HRC region and use the results to assess the…
Journal Article
Linking the uptake of best management practices on dairy farms to catchment water quality improvement over a 20-year period
Intensive land use, such as dairying, can impair water quality. Although many guidelines exist on how to mitigate the loss of dairy-associated contaminants from land…
Journal Article
Direct exports of phosphorus from fertilizers applied to grazed pastures in Australasia
The 4R concept was developed to help mitigate P exports. This review investigates the factors affecting P exports soon after the application of mineral fertilizers…
Journal Article
Measuring Chinese food consumers’ preferences for sustainability attributes: The case of the Shanghai yoghurt market
This paper reports on the application of a discrete choice experiment survey designed to measure consumer preferences for sustainability attributes in the Shanghai yogurt market.…
Journal Article
Assessing the Yield and Load of Contaminants with Stream Order: Would Policy Requiring Livestock to Be Fenced Out of High-Order Streams Decrease Catchment Contaminant Loads?
This paper won the JEQ Best Paper Award 2019. Concentration and flow data for 1998 to 2009 were used to calculate catchment load and yields…
Summary
Demand & Supply: Trends and Risks of Imported Feed
The global price and availability of supplementary feeds – grain and PKE – have significant implications for New Zealand livestock farmers. Recenty completed research assessed…
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