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Winning the Green Premium: Red Meat Sector webinar

Red meat consumers are demanding ever-greater sustainability in their food choices. That comes with a financial cost. How can producers earn more to cover these…
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Journal Article

Does the source of drinking water (bore vs town supply) influence water intake, milk production and cow drinking preferences?

Cows are sensitive to drinking water quality, however, little is known about the perception of bore water that sometimes contain high concentrations of natural contaminants,…
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Find Data platform

Find Data provides fast and efficient access to vital information on land and water data, tailored to serve the diverse needs of its users. Currently…
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Journal Article

Drone Use in On-Farm Environmental Compliance: An Investigation of Regulators’ Perspectives

Freshwater resources around the world are under increasing pressure from agricultural activities. As a result, regulatory frameworks around on-farm environmental compliance have become more complex.…
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An Early Contribution to Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s Taste Pure Nature Brand

Evidence from the Integrating Value Chains programme supported a country-of-origin brand that reached hundreds of millions of people in the US and China, and could…
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Understanding the linkage between hydrological and chemical signatures at catchment outlets and dominant contaminant transfer pathways

Integrating Multiple Aquatic Values, November 2017
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Land-use suitability is not an intrinsic property of a land parcel

Land-use choices should not be determined by potential productivity alone but should also account for environmental constraints and for land use elsewhere in the landscape.…
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Technical Report

Consumer Insights and Willingness to Pay for Attributes: NZ Beef Products in California, USA

To achieve greater value in global markets, New Zealand can increase its understanding of our international customers' demands for products from New Zealand's land and…
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Te Mana o te Wai Audit Tool

This audit tool has been developed to support councils and mana whenua to work together to assess how both sets of organisations are prepared for…
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