OPINION: In 2009 I visited Nick Pyke who was the head of The Foundation for Arable Research at the time. I wasn’t having any luck convincing a Canterbury dairy farmer to trial my wacky “happy cow” dairy farming system. I wondered …
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In 2009 I visited Nick Pyke who was the head of The Foundation for Arable Research at the time. I wasn’t having any luck convincing a Canterbury dairy farmer to trial my wacky “Happy Cow” dairy farming system. I wondered …
You can check the nitrate levels of your local river by visiting this interactive map from Statistics NZ https://statisticsnz.shinyapps.io/river_water_quality_nitrogen_apr17/ You’ll notice that the Forks Stream near Tekapo has a nitrate concentration of 3mg/L. If you drive approximately 120 km west …
OPINION: Growing up, the highlight of my springer spaniel’s day was to accompany me to the back of the farm to fetch the cows for milking. He would run through the paddocks with his nose to the ground, sniffing for rabbits, …
