…Last week’s damning report on the environment might, might, just be the wake-up call the NZ dairy industry in general, and Fonterra in particular, needs. The days of resting on the laurels of the effective ‘fencing off waterways’ campaign are gone. Nitrate leaching and nitrous oxide greenhouse gas emissions are…
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Global Sustainable Farming Ltd – ONEsystem®
…automatically greatly reduces N losses to the environment, both in terms of nitrate leaching and greenhouse gas emissions. (2) Only the most agronomically efficient and environmentally-protective forms of nutrients are used in ONEsystem ®. A wide range of additional fertiliser products and trace elements will become available for application through…
Reducing P Losses to the Environment – Why is the cheapest, easiest and most Farmer-practical method being ignored?
…reduce losses to the environment.” He says instead we see tens of millions of dollars being spent on irrelevant promotion-based developments like AgHub, and looking at different plants to see if one can recover 5% more N than the other. “Talk about fiddling while Rome burns!” he says. A classic…
Improving Fertiliser Efficiency on Peat
…changes to existing drains, requires consent from Environment Waikato, because of flow-on effects on other land-users and the environment. Developed peat typically has a bulk density of 0.5 tonnes/cubic meter. Even the best-managed peats are shrinking – that is, the ground level is dropping – about 2cm per year. This…
The Launch of Group ONE Consultancy
…Consultancy Ltd. This company has a strong focus on fostering international research and training in agriculture and the environment. With the company only just formed, the two were visited during mid-January by one of China’s foremost agriculture and environment researchers and a good friend of Dr Nguyen, Prof Li Yong…
Group ONE HOMEPAGE
…advice that had a strong focus on protecting the environment. This was broadened in 2014 to include information on new technologies being developed to improve nutrient recycling and therefore both increase farm productivity and profitability, while reducing losses to the environment. With some of these key new technologies reaching the…
Challenges and Innovations in Fertiliser Technology and Spreading
…deposition. The resulting increasing eutrophication of New Zealand’s waterways, despite increasing restrictions of direct stock access and other ‘quick-fix’ physical measures, is an increasing threat both to the country’s actual environment and to how we are perceived by overseas markets. New Thinking and New Technologies to Meet New Challenges Environmental…
Improving the Utilisation of Phosphorus in New Zealand Agriculture
…Introduction This article aims to present an overview of how knowledge of and attitudes to phosphate fertiliser efficiency have developed within New Zealand, to clarify areas of confusion that exist, to discuss possibilities for improving phosphate efficiency in the future, and for reducing losses to the aquatic environment. There is…
Observations on the 2016 International Groundwater Conference, San Francisco 28-30 June 2016, by Dr Bert Quin
…Councils), but reserves the right for the State to take over if things turn to custard. In fact, similar to what happened with Environment Canterbury a few years ago, when the government appointed temporary Commissioners. An interesting point of difference between New Zealand and California is that while our groundwater…
The importance of choice
…mission to ensure that their shareholders and their environment continue to benefit from the very best research and development in fertiliser efficiency and cost-effectiveness. This has become a cruel joke. Longer-term readers of www.groupone.co.nz will remember a view we expressed on the launch of the original website in 2011. I…
