Displaying items by tag: Waikato Regional Council
Keeping sediments away protects bottom line
Winter's end is a time for cultivating paddocks; this must be done well to prevent sediment and excessive nutrients getting into waterways from the land.
Wetlands helping to combat nutrient leaching
Appropriate
Your old mate had to giggle at a recent media proclamation from the Waikato Regional Council. The local government body boldly claimed it is “taking a fresh approach to helping farmers with effluent management”.
Effluent Expo off, field days on
Protecting crucial soils
Waikato faces pest challenges
The Waikato Regional Council is facing a range of environmental and production pest challenges this year following a busy 12 months controlling unwanted animals and plants.
Waikato concerns over new national Tb plan proposal
Waikato Regional Council says it is concerned proposed changes to the national plan for managing tuberculosis (Tb) in cows may be somewhat hypocritical when it comes to the Waikato.
Sheep and beef farmer in the gun with council
Holding on to stock longer after a drought in the hope they would reach higher weights contributed to a Taupo farmer becoming the first sheep and beef farmer warned by the Waikato Regional Council for breaching nitrogen caps.
Taupo farmer warned over nitrogen cap breaches
A sheep & beef farmer has been formally warned for breaching the Resource Management Act by exceeding a nitrogen discharge cap over a two-year period.