Nutrient Management
Phosphorus Losses
BallanceEx - Phosphate loss
YouTube video - Ballance science strategy manager Warwick Catto talks phosphate loss with Professor Allan Gillingham
PROVIDER
Ballance Agri-Nutrients
BallanceEx - Examining Greenhouse Gases
YouTube video - Ballance nutrient science manager Sheree Balvert catches up with Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium general manager Mark Aspin
PROVIDER
Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Winter Feed Crops: Management After Grazing
Careful management of paddocks after winter grazing can reduce damage to soil structure and loss in productivity, while reducing further environmental losses that could potentially affect water quality.
PROVIDER
Beef and Lamb New Zealand
Critical Source Areas
Critical source areas (CSAs) are small, low-lying parts of farms such as gullies and swales where runoff accumulates in high concentration. This site gives options to manage CSAs to reduce runoff losses
PROVIDER
DairyNZ
Critical Source Areas
What are Critical Source Areas and how can they be managed to reduce environmental impact
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Environment Southland
Deer fence pacing: Costs and solutions
A factsheet looking at the causes, costs and options to prevent deer fence pacing
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DINZ
Protecting waterways from wallow and feed pad run-off
Good management practices
A guide to reducing contaminants entering tile drains
Many farms in Southland are dependent on an efficient soil drainage system to maintain pasture production and use. This is made up of subsurface mole and tile (pipe) drains that transport soil water to open drains and waterways.
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Environment Southland
Nutrient Management
Environment Southland is promoting the use of a nutrient budget as good management practice to ensure farmers gain a greater awareness and understanding of nutrient management for their farm.
PROVIDER
Environment Southland
Reducing phosphorus (P) loss on dairy farms
There are many options to reduce the amount of P that enters the environment. This page will help you identify opportunities on your farm to reduce P loss.
PROVIDER
DairyNZ
Effective Nutrient Management on deer farms
Things to consider on deer farms to ensure that nutrients remain in the paddock
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DINZ
Nitrogen and Phosphorus Filter Trials
Two filters were installed near the Waituna Lagoon in 2016 and were monitored for 3 years. This website explains how the trial was conducted, the potential of filters as a mitigation and the practicality of including this mitigation on farm
PROVIDER
Living Water
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.
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DINZ
Phosphorus fertiliser use
Phosphorus (P) is the most expensive nutrient. It is also a pollutant when it gets into waterways. Careful management of P is essential to ensure optimal economic and environmental outcomes. The key is to farm at the economic optimal soil Olsen P – farming below the optimal means less profit and farming above the optimal means greater losses of P to the environment.
PROVIDER
DairyNZ
In stream sediment traps
This is an ongoing project which aims to capure sediment in lowland streams. Go to this website to get updates on the project and their findings
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Living Water
Nutrient Management on your dairy farm
A farmer’s guide to understanding how nitrogen and phosphorus enter, cycle through and leave your dairy farm
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DairyNZ
Identifying Contaminants
There are many options available to improve the health of our waterways. This page will help you understand the actions you can take.
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DairyNZ
Constructed wetlands to reduce contaminant loss from pastoral farms
Nitrogen Losses
Winter Feed Crops: Management After Grazing
Careful management of paddocks after winter grazing can reduce damage to soil structure and loss in productivity, while reducing further environmental losses that could potentially affect water quality.
PROVIDER
Beef and Lamb New Zealand
Considering a catch crop
The purpose of a catch crop is to increase annual dry matter production, to take up soil mineral and urine nitrogen and to reduce the risk of leaching or runoff.
PROVIDER
DairyNZ
Reducing Nitrogen Fertiliser Use
Using less N fertiliser can contribute to better water quality and a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. If reviewing your use of N fertiliser, the tips below can help you form a plan.
PROVIDER
DairyNZ
Managing Nitrogen Fertiliser
Getting the timing and application rate of nitrogen fertiliser right will help increase efficiency and minimise N leaching to waterways.
PROVIDER
DairyNZ
Forages for reduced nitrate leaching programme
The DairyNZ-led programme Forages for Reduced Nitrate Leaching – a cross-sector approach (2013-2019) provided new scientific knowledge, tools and technologies for forage production that can amount to more than 20% reduction of nitrate leaching from dairy, arable, sheep and beef and mixed-farming systems.
PROVIDER
DairyNZ
Reducing Nitrogen Losses
A guide to good management practices relating to reducing nitrogen losses from farm
PROVIDER
DairyNZ
Good management practices
A guide to reducing contaminants entering tile drains
Many farms in Southland are dependent on an efficient soil drainage system to maintain pasture production and use. This is made up of subsurface mole and tile (pipe) drains that transport soil water to open drains and waterways.
PROVIDER
Environment Southland
Nutrient Management
Environment Southland is promoting the use of a nutrient budget as good management practice to ensure farmers gain a greater awareness and understanding of nutrient management for their farm.
PROVIDER
Environment Southland
Bioreactor Trail: Reducing Nitrates
This is an ongoing project which aims to reduce in drain nitrate concentrations using a wood chip bioreactor. Go to this website to get updates on the project and their findings
PROVIDER
Living Water
Effective Nutrient Management on deer farms
Things to consider on deer farms to ensure that nutrients remain in the paddock
PROVIDER
DINZ
Nitrogen and Phosphorus Filter Trials
Two filters were installed near the Waituna Lagoon in 2016 and were monitored for 3 years. This website explains how the trial was conducted, the potential of filters as a mitigation and the practicality of including this mitigation on farm
PROVIDER
Living Water
Nutrient Management on your dairy farm
A farmer’s guide to understanding how nitrogen and phosphorus enter, cycle through and leave your dairy farm
PROVIDER
DairyNZ
Identifying Contaminants
There are many options available to improve the health of our waterways. This page will help you understand the actions you can take.
PROVIDER
DairyNZ
Natural seepage wetlands and nitrogen losses
They may be generally disliked by farmers and thought of as troublesome ‘bogs’, but seepage wetlands have proven highly effective at preventing contaminants from reaching waterways. These so-called ‘kidneys of the land’ could serve as one useful tool in the dairy sector’s efforts to reduce nitrate leaching.
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DairyNZ
Constructed wetlands to reduce contaminant loss from pastoral farms
Soil Testing and Fertiliser Use
Nutrient value of effluent
The average dairy cow produces about $25 worth of nutrients annually as farm dairy effluent (FDE). For a 400 cow dairy herd this represents about $10,000 of nutrients annually. If these FDE nutrients are used effectively then this significantly reduces the fertiliser bill. FDE is therefore a resource not a waste product.
PROVIDER
DairyNZ
Fertiliser use on New Zealand Forage crops
A practical guide on forage crop soil fertility and fertiliser requirements
PROVIDER
Fertiliser Association of New Zealand
Effective Nutrient Management on deer farms
Things to consider on deer farms to ensure that nutrients remain in the paddock
PROVIDER
DINZ
Phosphorus fertiliser use
Phosphorus (P) is the most expensive nutrient. It is also a pollutant when it gets into waterways. Careful management of P is essential to ensure optimal economic and environmental outcomes. The key is to farm at the economic optimal soil Olsen P – farming below the optimal means less profit and farming above the optimal means greater losses of P to the environment.
PROVIDER
DairyNZ
Phosphorus fertiliser use
Phosphorus (P) is the most expensive nutrient. It is also a pollutant when it gets into waterways. Careful management of P is essential to ensure optimal economic and environmental outcomes. The key is to farm at the economic optimal soil Olsen P – farming below the optimal means less profit and farming above the optimal means greater losses of P to the environment.
PROVIDER
DairyNZ
Dr Doug Edmeades: Making the most of your fertiliser
Podcast - Fertiliser and lime account for about 20% of Farm Working Expenses on a typical New Zealand sheep and beef farm. Dr Doug Edmeades shares his advice on how to optimise that spend by monitoring soils, clovers and pastures, as well as considering the components of fertiliser and lime – not just the product as a whole.
PROVIDER
Beef and Lamb New Zealand
Successful soil and fertiliser management
Podcast - discuss the keys to making the most from your fertiliser and lime budget, what farmers should focus on and what they shouldn’t stress over.
PROVIDER
Beef and Lamb New Zealand
Soil fertility for pasture
Lime use on New Zealand Pastoral farms
Agricultural lime plays a vital role in modern farming systems. Over time, most soils become more acidic due to a variety of factors such as leaching, decomposing organic matter, erosion, and plant uptake of essential nutrients. This booklet explains appropriate Lime use on New Zealand pastoral farms
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Fertiliser Association of New Zealand
Fertiliser use on New Zealand Sheep and Beef farms
The principles and practice of soil fertility and fertiliser use on New Zealand sheep and beef farms.
PROVIDER
Fertiliser Association of New Zealand
Fertiliser use on New Zealand dairy farms
A guide on the optimum soil fertility for New Zealand dairy farms, and the fertiliser applications required to achieve and maintain them.
PROVIDER
Fertiliser Association of New Zealand
Use of trace elements in New Zealand pastoral farming
A guide to trace element requirements and use in New Zealand pastoral farming
PROVIDER
Fertiliser Association of New Zealand
Soil Testing
A guide to the importance of soil testing, the tests available, and how soil samples should be collected and analysed
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Ravensdown
Plant Testing
Nutrient Management for Vegetable Crops in New Zealand
This book is intended to be a resource of best-practice advice to manage the nutrition of vegetable crops in New Zealand (NZ). The emphasis is firmly on practices that are scientifically defensible.
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Fertiliser Association of New Zealand
Managing soil fertility on cropping farms
Broadacre cropping is dominated by the production of cereal grains and pulses which are the staple crops for our population. As such society demands a reliable supply of high quality products. To meet these requirements while achieving an economically viable livelihood arable farmers have tended to invest in heavily mechanised high input crop production systems for which the maintenance of strong soil fertility is critical.
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Fertiliser Association of New Zealand
Effluent system Design and Management
Understanding the value of farm dairy effluent
This fact sheet looks at the nutrient value of farm dairy effluent, practical steps to capture the full value of effluent, and what best practice management looks like.
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BNZ
Farm Dairy Effluent Systems
Designing or upgrading effluent systems
When making the decision to install or upgrade a farm dairy effluent system it's important to ask the right questions, gather information and take professional advice. This page is a good starting point
PROVIDER
DairyNZ
Managing and operating effluent systems
Good effluent management is a combination of having a well-designed effluent system and processes for people that make sure the effluent the system collects is applied to pasture in the right amount at the right time.
PROVIDER
DairyNZ
Effluent Storage
Having well-designed and constructed storage facility will save you time and money. The key is good planning and working with the right people.
PROVIDER
DairyNZ
Clear Tech
ClearTech is an innovative effluent treatment system that recycles water and increases effluent storage capacity.
PROVIDER
Ravensdown
EcoPond Effluent Treatment
Ravensdown’s EcoPond Effluent treatment system removes virtually all methane emitted from effluent ponds and, as an emerging mitigation technology, is available now.
PROVIDER
Ravensdown
Nutrient value of effluent
The average dairy cow produces about $25 worth of nutrients annually as farm dairy effluent (FDE). For a 400 cow dairy herd this represents about $10,000 of nutrients annually. If these FDE nutrients are used effectively then this significantly reduces the fertiliser bill. FDE is therefore a resource not a waste product.
PROVIDER
DairyNZ
CATCHMENT GROUPS
APARIMA CG - ACE
ACE COMMUNITY PROJECT
Workstream 1
Stream Walks
Water testing
Workstream 2
Good Farming Practices
Workstream 3
Sediment Trap
