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The underground army

January 18, 2021 by Rebecca Flannery

Dung beetles release at Cameron Hendersons North Canterbury Farm

New Zealand is recognised as the world’s leading pastoral agricultural producer. Pasture-based exports account for almost half of our total exports and given the state of the rest of the world, we are quickly becoming globally recognised as gold standard food producers. Unfortunately, all that productivity puts us in the shit…. tonnes of it.  It’s […]

Imagine if we could store ALL that water

January 8, 2021 by Rebecca Flannery

Dancing inthe Central Otago rain

We cannot control the weather, but we can make the most of it and catch it while we can. Jared is passionate about protecting river ecology and fears without a local community water storage solution it’s going to get harder and harder to balance everyone’s calls on a limited resource. “It’s about the certainty to […]

Dairy industry big guns join forces to tackle nitrogen leaching

December 14, 2020 by DairyNZ

Fonterra and Nestlé are teaming up with DairyNZ to expand a promising plantain trial to help improve waterways and reduce on-farm greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Incorporating certain varieties of plantain into a cow’s diet has been shown to reduce the nitrogen concentration in their urine, which can leach through soil into groundwater. To test the […]

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