Displaying items by tag: effluent

Getting more stock out of waterways and further restricting land use changes are recommended as part of plans to improve the health of rivers in Waikato.

Dairy effluent, particularly slurry, can be a big problem.

Can farms make money – or at least save it – by extracting the energy latent in dairy effluent?

New Zealand's farmers seem to have at last woken up and smelt the coffee.

Dairy farmers are increasingly using technology to monitor and control their dairy effluent systems, says Precision Farming Ltd.

Farm dairy effluent is a natural, dilute liquid fertiliser.

Dairy farm effluent should be treated as a fertiliser, but carefully, because it is not a balanced fertiliser, being very high in potassium.

The environmental effects of nitrogen that determine how much effluent you can irrigate onto land, says Waikato Regional Council.

Ken Westlake played a key role in a potentially 'game-changing' effluent reduction model for the dairy industry.

With ever tightening regulations on effluent storage, containment – whether in open ponds or purpose built reservoirs – is capital intensive.