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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

Fact Sheet 3 Setting Up A Willow Coppice Block For Fodder

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Environment

ASNZ 2018 01. Modelling N Management

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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.

Tools & Apps

Effluent

Effluent spreading calculator

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

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Effluent

Effluent spreading depth testing calculator

Use this calculator to measure the depth of effluent applied from a variety of effluent systems.

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Effluent

Effluent storage: working volume calculator

Use this calculator to calculate the dimensions and working volume of your effluent pond or tank.

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Effluent

Irrigation bucket test calculator

Carrying out a ‘bucket test’ will help determine the application depth, rate and how uniformly water is being applied during an irrigation event.

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Irrigation

A Farmers Guide To Building A New Effluent Storage Pond

This guide aims to help farmers when building a new effluent pond including; planning, working with consultants and contractors, and design options.

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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

A staff guide to operating your effluent irrigation system - Low rate system

This booklet helps take farm staff through the important parts of operating and maintaining a low rate effluent system.

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Environment

A staff guide to operating your effluent irrigation system - Travelling irrigator system

This booklet helps take farm staff through the important parts of operating and maintaining a travelling irrigator effluent system.

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Environment

AB Lime, Southland

An AB Lime dairy farm in Winton, Southland case study (2019) on environmental performance and the effect on production and profitability.

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Environment

Advice for Southland and South Otago farmers experiencing full effluent ponds

This is support and advice for farmers in Southland and South Otago that are experiencing full effluent ponds due to adverse weather.

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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

Annual and event suspended sediment loads for the Aparima River 2015-2019

A report prepared by NIWA for DairyNZ.

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Environment

Assessment of potential constructed wetland sites within the Waituna catchment - NIWA 2013

Report prepared for DairyNZ and Environment Southland by NIWA.

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Environment

Attenuation of diffuse-source agricultural sediment and nutrients by riparian buffer zones

A report prepared by NIWA for DairyNZ.

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Environment