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.

Tools & Apps

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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Getting riparian planting right in Auckland

Your step-by-step guide for successful riparian planting in Auckland.

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Riparian planting



Getting riparian planting right in Northland

Your step-by-step guide for successful riparian planting in Northland.

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Riparian planting



Getting riparian planting right in Otago

Your step-by-step guide for successful riparian planting in Otago.

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Riparian planting



Getting riparian planting right in Southland

Your step-by-step guide for successful riparian planting in Southland.

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Riparian planting



Getting riparian planting right in Taranaki

Your step-by-step guide for successful planting riparian planting in Taranaki.

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Riparian planting



Getting riparian planting right in the Horizons Region

Your step-by-step guide for successful riparian planting in Manawatu-Wanganui.

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Riparian planting



Getting riparian planting right in the Waikato

Your step-by-step guide for successful riparian planting in the Waikato.

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Riparian planting



Getting riparian planting right in Canterbury

Your step-by-step guide to successful and cost effective riparian planting in Canterbury.

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Riparian planting



Getting riparian planting right in the Bay of Plenty

Your step-by-step guide for successful riparian planting in the Bay of Plenty.

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Riparian planting



Getting riparian planting right in the Top of the South

Your step-by-step guide for successful riparian planting in Tasman, Nelson and Marlborough.

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Riparian planting



Getting riparian planting right in the Wellington Region

Your step-by-step guide for successful riparian planting in the Wellington region.

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Riparian planting



Getting riparian planting right on the West Coast

Your step-by-step guide for successful riparian planting on the West Coast.

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Riparian planting

Good Farming Practice Action Plan For Water Quality 2018

21 good management practices, centred around the improvement of water quality, form the basis of a FEP.

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Environment

Guide To Good Irrigation - Part 1

Fine-tune your irrigation and assist with daily operation. Part 1 is for farm staff and managers operating irrigation systems on a daily basis.

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Environment

Guide To Good Irrigation - Part 2

Use this guide to help fine-tune your irrigation and assist with daily operation and responsibilities.

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Environment

HWEN - Greenhouse gases Farm Planning Guidance

This document is a guide for farmers and growers to help them measure, manage and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Environment

Hauraki Plains Clay Ponds Case Study

A case study showing the first pond to be built using this method in Hauraki marine clay.

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Environment

He Waka Eke Noa

Our future in our hands. Primary sector climate change commitment.

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Environment

He Waka Eke Noa Recommendations Report

Report to Ministers - Recommendations for pricing agricultural emissions.

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Environment

Healthy Waterways Timeline for Farmers

A timeline of what farmers have to do for freshwater regulation.

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Environment

How to use the Dairy Effluent Storage Calculator (DESC)

Step by step instructions on how to calculate storage requirements.

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Environment



IPENZ 21: Farm Dairy Effluent Pond Design and Construction

A technical guide to building a new effluent storage pond.

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Effluent

Integration report – evaluation of FRNL data against Overseer (April 2019)

This report outlines the findings from an evaluation of Overseer against experimental data.

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Environment

Investigating a method of nonparametric changepoint analysis water quality

Report prepared for DairyNZ by Cawthron Institute.

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Environment