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NIWA scientists leading New Zealand’s MethaneSAT agricultural emissions science programme are gearing up for the launch of its satellite.

OPINION: Plan for the worst and hope for the best!

Major players in the primary sector are mobilising staff ahead of NIWA's predictions that regions severely damaged by Cyclone Gabrielle are about to be hit by potentially one of the country's worst droughts.

NIWA is working with Māori farming enterprises on a novel approach to remove nutrients from agricultural runoff.

Following NZ's wettest July, according to NIWA, a laboratory analysing faecal egg counts (FEC) says this has led to record parasite numbers in sheep across the country.

After a very wet July, NIWA is forecasting a ray of hope for sodden farmers. Temperatures are most likely to be warmer than average across most of the country through the middle of spring 2022.

A quarter-century of weather data from one Central Otago farm is being analysed to see if it could lead to better farm planning for temperature and moisture variations across different altitudes and aspects.

DairyNZ and NIWA have joined forces to help farms with wetland design and performance.

Northland farmers are starting to count the cost of one of the most severe droughts to hit the region as the cost of feed and lower prices for stock are the order of the day.

With many regions experiencing increasingly dry weather, DairyNZ is asking farmers to plan for managing stock through challenging conditions.