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Climate Commission chair Dr Rod Carr recently shared the commission's views - and some personal ones - with the Waikato Regional Council Climate Action Committee.

Waikato Regional Council has secured $2.8 million from the Ministry for Primary Industries’ Hill Country Erosion (HCE) Programme in the latest round of funding announced on Sunday.

Reports of effluent being illegally dumped from trucks in three locations in Waikato have prompted calls for trucking companies and farmers to improve their practices.

Waikato Regional Council has updated its strategic direction to focus on wellbeing and responding to climate change.

Waikato Regional Council senior technical advisor Bala Tikkisetty says soil is the most important resource to any nation, more importantly for farmers.

Waikato Regional Council’s new chair, Pamela Storey, says the relationship between the council and farmers in the region has improved over the past three years.

Waikato farmers John and Maria van Heuven believe in leaving their 164ha property in a better condition than when they bought it 20 years ago.

Waikato Regional Council has secured $2.17 million in funding for three catchment-scale projects and the Council’s new Māori medium environmental educational programme.

Decline in soil physical properties takes considerable expense and many years to correct, and can increase the risk of soil erosion by water or wind.

Waikato landowners, supported by Waikato Regional Council, have retired the equivalent of 21 average-sized farms of unproductive land and planted over 3 million trees in the past five years.