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How much nitrogen does asparagus need?

A project to develop a best practice guide for the use of nitrogen in asparagus crops in New Zealand was hampered by one of the…
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Project Summary: What are the Best Sediment Traps for my Hill Country Stream?

This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of three different sediment traps within the same…
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Rural Professionals Fund 2022–23

There were 12 successful projects in the third funding round for the Our Land and Water Rural Professionals Fund.
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Shifting from land-use capability to land-use suitability

The LUS classification system will be based on concatenation of three categories: land-use potential, contribution to catchment contaminant delivery, and pressure in receiving environments (Fig.…
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History and impacts of Wai 262 – webinar

We all need to understand the origins, history and impacts of the Wai 262 Waitangi Tribunal claim on individuals and whanau, so that we can…
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Project Summary: Application of Remote Sensing in Spatial Irrigation Scheduling

This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to use the SWAN Systems platform, an automated water balance model, alongside…
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Water quality issues facing dairy farming: potential natural and built attenuation of nitrate losses in sensitive agricultural catchments

We developed a conceptual catchment-scale modelling analysis assessing potential natural and built attenuation of nitrate losses from dairy farming in the Tararua and Rangitikei catchments…
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Barriers to Environmental Change

Farming in New Zealand is changing. The environmental impacts of farming are presenting more interlinked challenges. The pressure is on farmers to shift from the…
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Pohewa Pae Tawhiti

Supporting land-use change decisions that are consistent with landowner long-range visions and priorities, through an integrated framework that incorporates tools, models and innovative guidelines and…
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