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What’s going to improve our water quality and keep enabling productivity? In this episode, we discuss practical and proven solutions from key catchments. Johan van Ras, Ron Pellow and Justin Kitto share what’s worked, from stream planting and edge-of-field mitigations to simple farm system changes that reduce nitrogen loss. You’ll hear how farmers, iwi and communities made progress together through the Sustainable Catchments Programme, and how you can apply the same ideas on your farm. The Sustainable Catchments programme was funded by investment from the Ministry for the Environment’s Jobs for Nature programme and dairy farmers via the DairyNZ levy. You can also read the story of their success finding solutions on pages 8 and 9 in the Inside Dairy August-October 2025 edition: Practical solutions for catchments.

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Inside Dairy August-October 2025

PDF DairyNZ Corporate 20.8 MB
This edition focuses on optimisation – with practical, people-focused ideas to boost on-farm productivity and sustainability.

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Riparian Planting

/environment/waterbodies-and-wetlands/riparian-planting/

Waimea catchment

/research/regional-projects/waimea-catchment/

South Canterbury catchment

/research/regional-projects/south-canterbury-catchment/

Monitoring water quality in catchments

/research/science-projects/monitoring-water-quality-in-catchments/

Stream ecosystem health

/research/science-projects/stream-ecosystem-health/

Low N Systems

/research/science-projects/low-n-systems/

Catchment Group Support

/support/farmer-led-groups/catchment-group-support/