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Overview of Regenerative Agriculture in Aotearoa

The 1st webinar in a series of 5 about regenerative agriculture in New Zealand, held on 26 October 2021. Speakers: Dr Gwen Grelet (Manaaki Whenua…
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Mitigating the impacts of dairy farming on water quality – what have we achieved?

NZ Society of Soil Science, December 2018
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Technical Report

Retiring Farmland into Ngahere

The purpose of this report, fact sheet and information video is to introduce successful low-cost native planting methods which can be used as an educational…
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Supporting the design of useful and relevant holistic frameworks for land use opportunity assessment for indigenous people

Choices about how to use land are critical to efforts to manage water quality in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Māori and non-Māori communities need decision-making frameworks that…
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Transport and potential attenuation of nitrogen in shallow groundwaters in the lower Rangitikei catchment

Intensive agricultural activities are generally associated with nitrogen leaching from agricultural soils with potential to contaminate groundwater and surface waters. We studied nitrogen losses and…
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Future Land Use Opportunities illustration

An illustration of a diversified farm of the future in Aotearoa New Zealand. Right-click to open image in a new tab to download at the…
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Evaluation of the physiographic method for the Tasman Region

The work undertaken in this project provides Tasman District Council with a foundation for which the physiographic approach can be applied within the region. The…
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Predicting Land-Based Nitrogen Loads and Attenuation in the Rangitikei River Catchment – the model development

We investigated and developed a simple model to account for the influence of different soil types and underlying geology on the transformation of nitrogen (N)…
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Linking the uptake of best management practices on dairy farms to catchment water quality improvement over a 20-year period

Intensive land use, such as dairying, can impair water quality. Although many guidelines exist on how to mitigate the loss of dairy-associated contaminants from land…
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