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A MORRINSVILLE farmer has been fined $33,000 for illegally discharging dairy effluent into the environment.  So deep was the effluent that cows’ udders were dragging in it.  

A Morrinsville farmer has been fined more than $33,000 for illegally discharging dairy effluent into the environment. The volume of effluent was such that cows' udders were dragging in it.

More than 100 contractors and designers of farm dairy effluent (FDE) ponds are the first to complete a training course aligned with new industry standards.

DairyNZ has created a series of fact sheets to provide farmers with access to the latest information on effluent and nutrient management.

A judge has ordered a Northland farmer to pay $24,000 for illegal discharges of dairy effluent from a storage tank and pond at the man's Donnelly's Crossing property in 2010.

A Waikato farming company has been fined nearly $32,000 for illegally discharging dairy effluent.

Effluent storage ponds from Canterbury and Taranaki have picked up DairyNZ Prize Pond Awards for keeping pond levels low in an event believed to be the first of its kind in the world.

DairyNZ is searching for prize dairy effluent storage ponds in the first ever New Zealand Prize Pond 2012 Awards.

More than 500 farmers have again attended this year's Effluent Expo, held at Mystery Creek yesterday, maintaining the very solid interest shown at last year's inaugural expo.

FARMERS AND exhibitors alike were enthusiastic about Canterbury's first-ever Effluent Expo, held last week on the outskirts of Christchurch.