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Nutrient Management
New Zealand farmers can keep more nutrients in their soil by choosing the right fertiliser for their type of land and applying it strategically, so it stays on the farm rather than draining away as pollution.
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Method
A method to derive nitrogen transport factors for New Zealand’s agricultural lands
Risk index tools have the potential to assist farmers in making strategic decisions regarding their farm design to manage losses of nutrients. Such tools require…
Guidance
The Catchment Group Toolkit
Build your Catchment Group Toolkit with resources from Our Land and Water and NZ Landcare Trust. Below you will find links to practical tools and…
Interactive Tool
MitAgator
Built on a detailed farm map, MitAgator’s software gives a spatial view of where contaminant losses are occurring and identifies critical source areas (CSAs). Targeting…
Kaitiaki Intelligence Platforms
Positioning Māori as first movers in next-generation environmental intelligence. For full information see the programme website
This project has produced
Rural Professionals Fund 2020–21
There were 15 successful projects in the first funding round for the Our Land and Water Rural Professionals Fund.
New Models of Collective Responsibility
Developing new ways to strengthen the connection between people, land and water
Register of Land Management Actions
What's been done? A national record of land management actions to improve water quality and restore catchments
This project has produced
Eutrophication Product Footprinting
Eutrophication indicators will help New Zealand agribusiness reduce environmental impacts and meet expected new European environmental standards
Innovative Agricultural Microbiomes
Understanding and manipulating interactions between soil, plant and animal microbiomes to improve water quality and sustainable pastoral productivity
Phosphorus Best Practice
Investigating whether current fertiliser and effluent guidelines and policy are strong enough to prevent phosphorus loss
Sources and Flows
Managing contaminant pathways and attenuation to create headroom for productive land use.
Predicting Agricultural Research Adoption
Using ADOPT (Adoption and Diffusion Outcome Prediction Tool) to determine time to peak levels of research adoption