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August 30, 2024
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Technical Report
Legumes for Our Land and Water
Using deferred grazing technology to increase the legume content of hill country pastures. Deferred grazing, which involves grazing exclusion from late spring until after seed-fall…
Presentation
Nitrogen Attenuation via Benign Denitrification
Our Land and Water Symposium, August 2019
Journal Article
Grid-based sediment tracing: A new method to determine sediment sources
This grid-based sediment tracing technique improves the precision of source contribution estimates and enhances the granularity of sediment source maps. We test the proposed technique…
Summary
Integrating solar electricity generation with livestock farming in Canterbury
Aotearoa New Zealand has committed to actions to mitigate climate change. By 2050 the intention is to be transitioned to a net zero carbon economy.…
Technical Report
Catchment And Community Environment Groups In Aotearoa New Zealand: Goals, Activities And Needs
The Ministry for the Environment contracted the Cawthron Institute to survey catchment and community environment groups about how they are organised, what they are doing,…
Technical Report
Case Study: Nga Iwi o te Tauihu
This is one of four mana whenua case studies that provide insights about addressing barriers and challenges they have experienced in freshwater management that could…
Journal Article
Understanding signals influencing on-farm change
We developed a framework to identify external off-farm signals from farmers' operating environment and internal on-farm signals that provide information about the farming system. We…
Journal Article
Development and validation of a nation-scale framework to characterize the fate and transport of key agricultural contaminants
A hydrological framework encompassing nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and microbial (E. coli) transfer from land to water was developed to provide a consistent and rapid…
Summary
Te Mana o te Wai Factsheet 2: Māori Landowners
The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide an introduction to Te Mana o Te Wai, the opportunities it presents for Iwi and hapū,…
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