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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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How farmers’ social licence to operate is being negotiated in statutory planning processes in the Waikato Region
This case study looks at Waikato dairy farmers' compliance with dairy effluent discharge consents. While other factors like methane emissions may also affect dairy farming’s…
Technical Report
Farm Certification Scheme Survey 2024
This survey followed up a baseline survey to measure KPIs for the OLW Challenge – specifically, measuring participation in farm certification schemes. The data tables…
Summary
The supplement struggle
New Zealand’s dairy industry is so reliant on internationally produced supplements that production and profitability would be impacted significantly if this food supply was interrupted.…
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,…
Trust and Social Licence
Investigating the importance of trust and approval by the community of the primary sector’s practices, and the connection to productivity and sustainable growth in New…
Map
Potential Groundwater Recharge Zones in New Zealand – image
Map of the potential groundwater recharge zones across New Zealand (500m x 500m resolution), which can be used to identify areas of high nutrient leaching…
Infographic
Summary: Can Regen Ag Promote Ecosystem-Based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation?
Nature's contributions to adaptation are the ecological properties and functions which people can manage and govern to regulate risks from climate change (and related hazards)…
Journal Article
Towards implementation of robust monitoring technologies alongside freshwater improvement policy in NZ
International studies point out that some freshwater policy objectives are not achieved. This study describes that this is in part caused by shortcomings that include:…
Journal Article
The effect of irrigation and urine application on phosphorus losses to subsurface flow from a stony soil
Factors such as irrigation and soil pH can increase the solubility of P and its loss to water. Urine patches are known to alter pH…
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