Research and Innovation

Soil testing from sky set to take off with new $2.5m investment

18 September 2018

A soil fertility testing initiative being developed to optimise productivity and reduce environmental impacts is being extended to other farm types – including dairy operations.

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Research and Innovation

Smart Maps users can now move to HawkEye

19 June 2018

HawkEye®, a new farm mapping software that sets pasture bench-marking and forecasting tools that will help farmers make smarter nutrient decisions by showing planned versus actual nutrient investments over time.

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Research and Innovation

Ravensdown pilots new effluent technology

3 May 2018

Ravensdown and Lincoln University in Canterbury unveiled a breakthrough effluent technology today (May 3) that could significantly lift the dairy sector’s effluent and water efficiency.

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Research and Innovation

Cadmium: The facts

17 April 2018

Cadmium is a naturally-occurring, non-essential heavy metal present in low concentrations in air, water and soil. Cadmium naturally occurs in phosphate rock from which phosphate fertiliser is made.

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