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August 30, 2024
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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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Journal Article
The potential for potassium chloride fertiliser applications to leach cadmium from a grazed pasture soil
Cadmium (Cd) is a biotoxic element that can enter the human food chain via plants grown in Cd-enriched soil. Chloride (Cl) can solubilise Cd in…
Technical Report
Farm Certification Scheme Baseline Survey, 2020
Participating in farm certification schemes can be frustrating for farmers but does lead to improvements on-farm, according to a recent survey by the Our Land…
Technical Report
Assessing animal welfare in New Zealand pastoral farms
This report outlines how to assess the impact of regenerative farming on the welfare of animals raised for production. The possible effect of diverse pastures…
Interoperable Modelling
Designing an open source modelling system to assess productivity potential and water quality contaminant dynamics at farm and catchment scales
Summary
Eight Iwi and Three Councils’ Partnership Responds to Te Mana o Te Wai in Te Tauihu
Environmental managers from eight Te Tauihu iwi, in co-design with three unitary councils and supported by Our Land and Water, have built a partnership to…
Technical Report
Establishing perennial ground cover species, as a management practice to suppress weeds in a pipfruit orchard's “weed spray strip”
Can low-growing, perennial plants be established as a ground cover in pipfruit orchards, as a replacement for a traditional ‘weed spray strip’ management practice? In…
Guidance
Communicating Effectively with Farmers (learning module)
This kōwae (learning module) will help you learn new approaches to communicating effectively with your clients and the rural community, using social science research from…
Technical Report
Faecal source tracking and the identification of naturalised Escherichia coli to assist with establishing water quality and faecal contamination levels
E. coli are routinely measured as faecal indicator bacteria (FIB) to provide indications of microbial water quality in parallel with other physico-chemical parameters. Recent evidence…
Eutrophication Product Footprinting
Eutrophication indicators will help New Zealand agribusiness reduce environmental impacts and meet expected new European environmental standards
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