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Composting Barn guide

This guide is designed to help New Zealand farmers work through the key decisions involved in planning, building, and operating a composting barn within a pasture-based system.

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Infrastructure

Reducing your environmental footprint

Evidence-based strategies to optimise your farm system, while maintaining productivity and profitability.

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Climate

Dairy Effluent Storage Calculator (DESC)

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

Tools & Apps

Effluent

Effluent Management Plan Poster

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

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Effluent

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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Feed

Woodchip denitrification filter performance evaluation

A report prepared by NIWA for DairyNZ.

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Environment

Worksheet To Estimate Water Use In The Farm Dairy

In the absence of meters, you can use this form to record all your water uses, then do the calculation to estimate total consumption.

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Environment



Pocket guide to determine soil risk for farm dairy effluent application

This field guide will take you step by step through the process of working out the soil risk for a farm.

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Effluent

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