Environment

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Tactics for reducing your environmental footprint

DairyNZ has pulled together nine tactics that will help farmers improve on-farm efficiency and have positive benefits for the environment. These tactics are based on research, data, and learnings from leading farmers.

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Environment

Dairy Effluent Storage Calculator (DESC)

The Dairy Effluent Storage Calculator (DESC) tool helps determine dairy effluent storage requirements for dairy farms.

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Effluent

Effluent Management Plan Poster

This effluent tool is designed to take some of the headache out of training staff and managing your effluent system.

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Environment

Effluent spreading calculator

Download this handy tool to take the guesswork out of determining your effluent nutrient loadings.

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Effluent

Top Tips for Effluent Management

This effluent poster has been developed with the help of farmers all around New Zealand. It provides top tips for effluent irrigators.

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Environment

Your winter grazing plan

This template is intended to help you develop a simple effective paddock plan for any break fed wintering system this winter

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Environment

Improving your wintering system

A successful farm system depends on having the right wintering system in place. Use this guide to evaluate your current system, pinpoint necessary improvements or changes, and create a plan.

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Tactics for reducing your environmental footprint

DairyNZ has pulled together nine tactics that will help farmers improve on-farm efficiency and have positive benefits for the environment. These tactics are based on research, data, and learnings from leading farmers.

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Environment



Good farming practices for environmental management

This guide describes what good environmental management looks like on a dairy farm and focuses on ten key areas for environmental management.

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Environment

Catch Crops for Reduced Nitrate Leaching

Management guidelines and lessons from the 'forages for reduced nitrate leaching' programme.

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Environment



Managing cows during winter grazing poster

If there is prolonged wet weather and your cows are on crop or grass, here are some options to improve conditions.

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Environment



Your winter grazing plan

This template is intended to help you develop a simple effective paddock plan for any break fed wintering system this winter

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Environment



Tararua farmers lead the way

In 2018, faced with the need to make significant environmental improvements to comply with regulatory requirements, farmers and the community teamed up in a five-year research project aimed at reducing their environmental footprint and improving water quality in the region.

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Environment

Effluent odour management for storage ponds

Strategies for managing storage pond odour.

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Environment

Inside Dairy July 2018: Grassroots Science Article

An article relating to the FRNL programme and featuring Ngāi Tahu and Paritea was published in Inside Dairy July 2018.

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Environment

Submission on the proposed Waikato Regional Plan Change 1 - Waikato and Waipa river catchments (27 February 2017)

A DairyNZ submission to the Waikato Regional Council.

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Environment

Ballindalloch Farm Efficiency Diagram

Annual summary of farm efficiency of farm management and production.

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Environment

Flemington Farm, Canterbury

A case study on environmental performance and the effect on production and profitability.

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Environment

Focus Farm Checklist

This is a checklist of the key changes that drove Alister and Lyn's fantastic improvement in performance and profit.

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Environment

Effluent To Grow Crops

Using dairy effluent to grow crops – an update for industry, farmers and consultants.

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Environment

Canlac Holdings Farm Efficiency Diagram

Annual summary of farm efficiency on Canlac Holdings Ltd.

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Environment

Diy Irrigation Evaluation Guide

Farmer workbook for checking the performance of spray irrigation systems.

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Environment

Leap21 Future Dairying Concepts

Overview of the two concepts that have been developed out of the Leap 21 project of how our future dairy systems could look

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Environment

LUDF Focus Day Handout

Update on LUDG 2020/21 season to date, focus on spring feeding, milk production, and mating.

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Environment

Land Management on Canterbury dairy farms

Managing land to reduce sediment and phosphorus loss.

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Environment



A farmer's guide to managing farm dairy effluent

A good practice guide to land application, for farm owners, sharemilkers, farm managers and effluent professionals.

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Effluent

Farmfact 6-61: How Landscape And Climate Affect Effluent Managment

There are three main landscape and climate factors which play a role in the success of effluent application.

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Environment

Alderbrook Farm Field Day Handout March 2020

The project focuses on how farms in Hinds and Selwyn can meet N loss limits and maintain profitable businesses under the Canterbury Land & Water Regional Plan.

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Environment

Catch Crop Gross Margin Calculator

Use this calculator to compare gross margins and cost of different catch crops.

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Environment

ASNZ 2018 01. Modelling N Management

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Environment

FRNL Measuring N Leaching On Farm

Find out why it is hard to measure N leaching on-farm.

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Environment