Advice, Environment

How to generate feed fast, post drought

28 June 2016

When dry conditions wreak havoc on pasture growth, and there seems like there is little you can do, it is time to turn your thoughts to how feed can be quickly generated once the drought eventually breaks.

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Research and Innovation, Environment

Water quality lessons learned by West Coast farmers

4 March 2016

An insight into the story behind a community, that turned their lake’s water quality around 5 years ahead of schedule.

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Advice, Environment

A licence to farm for the next 25 years

13 January 2016

A Rangitikei farming family is able to look to the future with certainty, having secured a 25-year controlled land use consent.

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Advice, Environment, The Experts

Plan A, B and C to cope with El Nino

19 October 2015

You may be aware that NIWA are predicting an El Nino weather pattern this year. While the name El Nino means “little boy”, the dry conditions on the east coast that it creates can be pretty big.

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