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Consumer Data Portal

The AERU, as part of our Integrating Value Chains and Rewarding Sustainable Practices research (plus research for other funders) has developed online tools to access…
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Study Shows Dairy Farm Work is Helping Improve Water Quality

The implementation of Good Management Practices on-farm does improve water quality, proves new research that analysed water quality trends over 20 years. As part of…
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Challenges and opportunities for land use transformation: Insights from the Central Plains Water Scheme in NZ

This paper considers the factors that are important to land managers in determining whether to change their land use system when the development of an…
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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…
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Evaluation of Cow Collar Technology

Cow collars, including ear tags and boluses and tags with similar functions, are recent technologies which provide cow health and reproductive monitoring to improve livestock…
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Local Grain Economy: Pathways to Transition Framework

Aotearoa has the capacity to supply much more milling wheat to New Zealand eaters, but growing a local grain economy requires fundamental investment or support…
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Science in Freshwater Policy Development

A case study of the role science played in the development of the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management
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Lower Cost Native Restoration of Farmland: Tīmata Method Fact Sheet

This six-page fact sheet on the Tīmata Method has been developed for New Zealand land owners. The Tīmata Method, which in Māori translates to begin,…
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‘Summer safe' crops

We need ‘summer safe’ crops because increasing droughts and changing rainfall patterns mean pasture is no longer a reliable feed source in late summer to…
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