Displaying items by tag: water quality

A ten-year scheme for dairying and healthy ecosystems is breaking down longstanding tensions between farmers and ecologists, says Fonterra’s Carly Robinson.

With the Waikato and Waipa rivers catchments due to face new targets and limits for water quality, farmers are being encouraged to be proactive over environment-related changes to their operations.

Emotions and values now come first in water quality assessment and science comes second, says a water quality specialist with DairyNZ, Tom Stephens.

Meetings in Waikato in May will offer farmers a say on Waikato Regional Council’s ‘Healthy Rivers Plan for Change’, which could affect their future.

Retiring land as a wetland or conservation area returns more than it costs, according to Hikurangi dairy farmer Steve Brown.

It may be dry onfarm right now, but we’ll soon be heading through autumn to winter.

One in five Fonterra suppliers is on notice to improve the quality of their milking shed water.

A project intended to protect the Waikato and Waipa rivers has gained a time extension.

One in five Fonterra suppliers is on notice to improve the quality of their milking shed water. 

2015 has been declared the International Year of the Soil by the United Nations, but for New Zealand it is water that is the burning issue.