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What You Can Do In Your Catchment

A catchment, or whaitua, is an area of land where rain flows into a common river, lake or other body of water. A healthy water…
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Mosaics Vs Monoculture

Mosaic vs Monoculture Landscapes

Testing the land-use ‘mosaic’ hypothesis
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A Foot in the Door to the Alternative Protein Market

Developing a pea and fava bean protein market in New Zealand would have high environmental gains, finds new research – but who pays for the…
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Our Land and Water Podcast Episode 4: How do we add diversity on farm?

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Balancing water-quality threats from nutrients and production in Australian and NZ dairy farms under low profit margins

We summarise the losses of N and P from Australasian dairy farms, examine the policy drivers used for mitigating losses and evaluate the effectiveness of…
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Bananas on Northland dairy farms: An option for forage supply and effluent cycling?

This project investigated if growing bananas on Northland dairy farms has potential to increase the economic and environmental sustainability of the dairy enterprise, by: •…
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The viability, feasibility, and environmental effects from using New Zealand sourced phosphate

New Zealand has accessible, on-shore sources of phosphate, finds this report. There are known phosphate deposits in Clarendon, Otago (containing at least 1.6Mt of phosphate…
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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…
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Revealing Groundwater’s Denitrification Capacity

A new way to measure denitrification in groundwater has been proved, and could make analysing groundwater’s denitrification capacity more accessible for regional councils and farmers.…
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