Displaying items by tag: Waikato Regional Council
Don’t take pests with you on Moving Day
Farmers are being urged to help protect farms from pest plants by cleaning machinery, vehicles and equipment before they move on Moving Day.
Green light for $280m plant
Wintering practices are critical
Soil damage during winter is a big issue for farmers. It coincides with high stock densities and high soil moisture conditions.
Farmers back blitz
The dairy industry is supporting councils in their efforts to get all farmers to meet their effluent obligations.
Crackdown on non-compliant farmers
DairyNZ says it supports the Waikato Regional Council monitoring and increasing their focus on high-risk farms.
Waikato farmers helping keep floods out
Eye-in-sky back in Waikato
Waikato Regional Council has resumed aerial monitoring of ‘at risk’ farms by satellite imagery, drones, fixed wing aircraft or helicopters.
Rusty helps sniff out velvetleaf
State funding to protect waterways
‘Barriers’ help keep streams clean
The age-old practice of building barriers is useful in the modern context of protecting Waikato’s waterways, especially as we collectively move to beef up our guardianship of lakes, rivers, streams and groundwater.