Land Management
Erosion
Taking action to reduce erosion will prevent sediment and nutrients from entering waterways and protect valuable topsoil.
PROVIDER
DairyNZ
Waterway erosion
Preventing stream bank erosion protects productive farm land from being lost and decreases the amount of soil and phosphorous entering waterways.
PROVIDER
DairyNZ
A guide to erosion control for water quality improvement
New Zealand has a significant erosion challenge with more than 200 million tonnes of soil lost from the land to the sea each year. Some of this is natural but the majority is the result of land development like native vegetation clearance and grazing animals, as well as changes to waterway flows from drainage and river straightening.
PROVIDER
Environment Southland
EnviroWalk
The EnviroWalk app is an easy to use tool that helps farmers quickly assess environmental risks across the farm. When areas for improvement are identified, the app lists actions that can be selected to form a customised action plan. Plans are saved and can be downloaded, printed and updated at any time.
PROVIDER
DairyNZ
Deer fence pacing: Costs and solutions
A factsheet looking at the causes, costs and options to prevent deer fence pacing
PROVIDER
DINZ
Protecting waterways from wallow and feed pad run-off
Waterway Technical Notes
Winter Feed Crops: Management During Grazing
This fact sheet focuses on good management practices. It is essential to consider how to reduce nutrient and contaminant losses to streams and waterways as well as minimising damage to soils and paddocks.
Strategic grazing of winter crops
Video - West Otago farmer, Simon O'Meara speaks about strategic grazing of winter crops to help reduce sediment and nutrient loss into waterways.
Reducing surface runoff from grazed winter forage crop paddocks by strategic grazing management
Research results showing the effect of good critical source area management in a winter grazing scenario
Water, soils and wallowing
Deer have specific natural needs and behaviours and if incorrectly managed, deer can threaten the quality of water and soil, cause erosion, compaction and pugging of soils, and the consequent runoff of nutrient, sediment and coliforms will result in contamination of waterways with undesirable behaviour including excessive pacing, wallowing, and digging in soils.
PROVIDER
DINZ
25 Don Street,
Invercargill 9810
PO Box 648,
Invercargill 9840
