Milk company Open Country Dairy is connecting the Farm Action Prioritisation Tool (FarmAPT) with over 1000 dairy farmer suppliers, supporting them to identify and prioritise mitigation actions for water quality improvement for…
The Our Land and Water Symposium is now over. Find videos of the presentations here. How do we restore the most fundamental treasures of our country – our land and…
Farmers have been taking action to improve water quality for years. Despite much hard work and investment, some New Zealand rivers still aren’t meeting community expectations for purity, swimmability and…
Farmers, growers and all those who care for our land want to help build a resilient, healthy and thriving agri-food and fibre system. Our Land and Water’s vision is a…
For the fourth – and final – time, rural professionals are invited to team up with farmers to apply for funding to test innovative ideas that help farmers add diversity,…
The Environmental Defence Society recently released the results of an in-depth study into the role that science played in the development of the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management (NPS-FM)…
John and Sarah Wright’s farm is in one of the most beautiful areas in the country. And despite being close to the wilderness areas of the Southern Alps and the…
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” asked Alice.“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.“I don’t…
When LIC national FarmWise manager Edward Hardie heard about a Northland farmer who reported he’d increased milk production simply by upgrading his stock water, he was interested and believed it…
Why is Our Land and Water ending? Our Land and Water is one of 11 National Science Challenges established in 2014 as ten-year, mission-led research programmes. The Challenges were funded…
Simply reducing the amount of contaminants entering our waterways while continuing with ‘business as usual’ land use is not enough to improve the health of our estuaries in a changing…
The avocado industry is one of New Zealand’s horticultural success stories. In 1939, fruit from nine avocado trees, raised from seed, were sold in Auckland. Sixty years later, there are…