Innovation, Best Practice and Sustainability in New Zealand’s Primary Sector
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The benefits of robotic milking for a dairy farming couple.
Evaluating the impacts of deferred grazing on hill country pastures.
Dragon fruit varieties developed for growing international markets.
Developing high-quality cereal forages through a joint venture programme.
Growing seaweed to help remediate polluted water at Agrisea.
Making fence posts from plastic waste.
Dung beetles rebalancing pastoral farming systems.
Developing a land-based fin fish supply for New Zealand at NIWA.
Evaluating the banana plant as a supplementary summer feed for dairy cows.
Providing high quality farm to fork in the Waikato
Dairy farmer Tracy Brown and the Dairy Environment Leaders Programme
Environment leader John Hayward is promoting best dairy farming practices
Understanding dairy production systems on peat soils in Waikato
Creating more sustainable use of water and power on vineyards at SWE
Scion research to reduce the use of oil-based plastics in the wine industry
Discovering the many uses of Miscanthus grass at Lincoln University
The science behind the development of a new nitrate detection tool
New technology reduces nitrogen losses from dairy farms
A business based on the by-products of animal processing buys a farm for a Hawke's Bay businesswoman
A company adding value to New Zealand's forestry sector
Up-scaling research and development at Lincoln University’s Ashley Dene Station
The Flett family farm is home to four generations of Fletts and is a testament to the innovative and questioning spirit of the generations.
The use of “landfarming” for the disposal of waste materials from the oil exploration and production industry to encourage the formation of more stable topsoil on re-contoured sandy dunes and the growth of pasture has increased the agronomic value of the land ten-fold.
An innovative and award-winning solution to an effluent problem on a Taranaki pig farm has resulted in a system that generates around half the farm’s electricity needs and could have potential for application on dairy farms as well.
A business set up to help sheep farmers clear manure from under their shearing sheds
The Bay of Plenty Regional Council and NIWA are trialling the use of nutrient rich farm runoff
Green Fuels manufactures biodiesel from waste cooking oils collected in the greater Christchurch area
A dairy farmer has developed an automated low rate application effluent system
Processing waste paunch grass from meat processing to high quality compost
Converting bloodmeal into a biopolymer that can be extruded like a petrochemical plastic
Rex Butterworth has changed his effluent system with help from consultant Alison Dewes
An ex-shepherd has built a business that recycles abbatoir and food waste using tiger worms
A large barn and effluent system are part of the infrastructure of a Southland Dairy Farm
Research at Lincoln University looking at the efficacy of native plants to reduce farm run-off
An environmentally friendly dairy effluent treatment option for dairying
A dairy business being with with a focus on efficient water use and effluent management
An educational campaign by industry body DairyNZ about effluent pond management
A study of management practices that reduce nitrogen loss from Southland and Otago farms
A new code of practice and design standards for dairy farm effluent
An abbatoir uses worms to manage the process waste stream on site
Progress in a catchment trying to improve water run-off quality
Achieving higher production with better environmental management tools
Technologies being developed at Scion to convert biomass to processable bioplastics