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Farm Environment Plans
Ministry for the Environment
Every farm in Aotearoa is required to have a Farm Environment Plan (FEP) for freshwater quality improvement. These resources can help design effective FEPs, FEP templates and processes that will contribute to freshwater improvements at the catchment level.
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Guidance
Using farm dairy effluent on free-draining soils
Additional measures, on top of regulations and industry good practice and guidelines, may be needed to minimise P losses from FDE applied to free-draining soils.…
Video
Healthy Waterways Register Webinar
The Healthy Waterways Land Management Actions Register is for all land holders, land managers, kaitiaki and catchment groups who sustainably manage their lands. This register…
Technical Report
Using Drone Technology for Environmental Compliance
This article looks at the views of farmers, rural professionals and regulators on drone use for environmental compliance purposes. It also discusses the benefits they…
Video
Using eDNA to identify taonga species: Te Miro Farm case study
This research project aimed to enable farmers to see where wildlife and farmed animals are contributing to environmental DNA (eDNA), provide a method to detect…
Journal Article
Understanding signals influencing on-farm change
We developed a framework to identify external off-farm signals from farmers’ operating environment and internal on-farm signals that provide information about the farming system. We…
Technical Report
Legumes for Our Land and Water
Using deferred grazing technology to increase the legume content of hill country pastures. Deferred grazing, which involves grazing exclusion from late spring until after seed-fall…
Technical Report
Land Use Diversification Challenges and opportunities for three North Canterbury farmers
This project concentrated on the unique opportunity to assess three separate farm businesses and the proposed changes to their systems, illustrating the environmental impacts and…
Interactive Tool
SWIFT: Strengths, Weaknesses, Impact and Feasibility Tool
SWIFT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Impact and Feasibility Tool) is designed to support discussions that enable collective action groups (CAGs) to tackle complex environmental challenges. SWIFT can…
Interactive Tool
Taking a look at the big picture
What are the relationships between soil quality and land value, land pressure on catchments, and water quality? Typically, soil quality monitoring has been used to…
Guidance
Make your stream monitoring data count! A national quality assurance framework for community-based monitoring in Aotearoa New Zealand
This national quality assurance framework will support community and CBM groups to collect freshwater data of a known quality that are ‘fit for purpose’. The…
Technical Report
Dairy Effluent Systems for High Rainfall – Report Final
The purpose of this project was to develop and pilot practical solutions for high rainfall dairy effluent systems with the movement away from discharge of…
Interactive Tool
Map of Total Phosphorus Yield and Reduction Potential
An interactive map shows the total phosphorus (TP) yield and the potential for mitigation strategies to reduce TP losses from land to water by 2035.…