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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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Rewarding Sustainable Practices

Delivering validated new knowledge to agribusiness leaders transforming commodity supply chains to premium value chains
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Interoperable Modelling

Interoperable Modelling

Designing an open source modelling system to assess productivity potential and water quality contaminant dynamics at farm and catchment scales
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Summary

Extreme Weather a Critical Concern for Next Decade of Farming, Experts Say

One year after the widespread devastation caused by the catastrophic flooding of cyclone Gabrielle, a new report finds that primary sector experts are deeply concerned…
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Presentation

Benign denitrification in shallow groundwaters

Land Use and Water Quality Agriculture and the Environment, Denmark, June 2019
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Journal Article

Anthropogenic increases of catchment nitrogen and phosphorus loads in New Zealand

Spatial regression models were used to predict yields of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) discharged from catchments throughout New Zealand. The models were derived using…
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Technical Report

Targets for sustainable and resilient agriculture (TSARA): a New Zealand perspective

Targets for sustainable and resilient agriculture (TSARA) is a European research programme investigating land uses and changes to land uses, and their potential to support…
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Video

Creating a Diverse and Sustainable Dairy Farming and Forestry Landscape (video)

This short video features Graham Smith, a Waikato dairy farmer whose farm played host to one of last year’s Rural Professionals Fund Projects. The project…
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Mauri Whenua Ora

Unlocking the potential of Māori land by advancing new production systems and market opportunities, using a mātauranga-centred framework
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Interactive Tool

Changing Climate: Disease Risk & Costs

This free interactive tool provides apple and grape growers and prospective investors with a glimpse into how climate change may affect the risk and costs…
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Where are we conducting our research?

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