Land Management
Critical Source Areas
Critical source areas (CSAs) are small, low-lying parts of farms such as gullies and swales where runoff accumulates in high concentration. This site gives options to manage CSAs to reduce runoff losses
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DairyNZ
Critical Source Areas
What are Critical Source Areas and how can they be managed to reduce environmental impact
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Environment Southland
Strategic grazing of winter crops
Video - West Otago farmer, Simon O'Meara speaks about strategic grazing of winter crops to help reduce sediment and nutrient loss into waterways.
Winter Feed Crops: Management During Grazing
This fact sheet focuses on good management practices. It is essential to consider how to reduce nutrient and contaminant losses to streams and waterways as well as minimising damage to soils and paddocks.
Reducing surface runoff from grazed winter forage crop paddocks by strategic grazing management
Research results showing the effect of good critical source area management in a winter grazing scenario
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DairyNZ
Managing critical source areas and setting up paddocks
Hear from Southland dairy farmer John Officer about how he manages critical source areas and sets his paddock up for feeding cows crop during wintering.
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DairyNZ
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