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Technical Report

Strip-till Fodder Beet to Improve Land and Water Outcomes

Fodder beet is an important crop for wintering in New Zealand farming systems. It keeps well through winter providing a high dry matter feed. However,…
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EU Green Deal: Impact on New Zealand’s Land-based Primary Producers

Several areas of focus for the EU Green Deal are likely to pose significant challenges for New Zealand’s export sectors, not only directly in the…
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Identifying resilience dimensions and thresholds: evidence from four rural communities in NZ

Community resilience is a critical determinant of how a community can cope with stressors and disturbances, but has proved difficult to conceptualise and measure. This…
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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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Future scenarios for arable agriculture

Food security, tackling climate change through emissions reduction, and developing alternative proteins in New Zealand are three threads that were explored by the Future Scenarios…
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Method for measuring denitrification in groundwater

Groundwater contains dissolved nitrogen gas (from both the air and denitrification), and dissolved argon and neon gases (which come only from the air). By extracting…
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Assessment of excess N2 for quantifying actual denitrification in NZ groundwater systems

Denitrification in groundwaters is a key nitrate (NO3) attenuation process, where leached NO3 can be reduced to gaseous forms of nitrogen (N2). In this study,…
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Potential Groundwater Recharge Zones in New Zealand – GIS raster zip file

Map of the potential groundwater recharge zones across New Zealand (500m x 500m resolution), which can be used to identify areas of high nutrient leaching…
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