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ADVICE ON TAP VIA DAIRYNZ WEBSITE EFFECTIVELY MANAGING EFFLUENT available to all dairy farmers, including A is hugely important – to farmers and the Farmer’s Guide to Building a New Effluent environment. Optimising effluent use Storage Pond. Trusted advice can also is one of the ways farmers can reduce be accessed through Accredited Effluent greenhouse gas emissions while also System Designers and Warrant of Fitness contributing to better water assessors, both of which are quality. DairyNZ supported programs. Most dairy farmers are doing Meanwhile, more dairy the right thing with how farmers are adopting innovative they manage effluent on their solutions and technology onproperties and have invested farm to improve their effluent considerably in reliable and management, Caleb says. Here sustainable systems, DairyNZ are some of the options farmers environmental change specialist are reporting favourably on: Caleb Higham says. Irrigation monitors – Caleb Higham. “Well-designed and minimise or prevent discharges constructed effluent storage provide a lot from stalled irrigators and broken pipes, of benefits – better flexibility for irrigation, make managing systems more efficient, better environmental management, peace prevent environmental mishaps and of mind and reduced risk of effluent nonsave farmers stress and time. Most can be compliance.� operated from a smartphone. Advice on effluent management systems Travelling rain guns – use ‘water wheel’ is available from dairy companies and type turbines to irrigate with greater speed regional councils. DairyNZ resources are control, creating greater wetted diameters,
meeting slower soil infiltration needs and the ability to target only part or half circles. Hydrofan washdown nozzles – reduce water use by about half in dairy sheds. DairyNZ’s effluent spreading calculator app – helps contract effluent spreaders and farmers to know how much land they needed to spread over to match desired nutrient levels. DairyNZ’s Envirowalk app – is used by farmers as they walk around the farm to help identify risk areas and possible solutions. Plans can be saved and updated. A ‘green water’ approach – using recycled effluent to ‘green wash’ dairy shed yards is also making effluent management easier for a growing number of dairy farmers. Water use in and around the farm is reduced by up to 65 per cent and effluent storage requirements by around 50 per cent. Visit www.dairynz.co.nz/effluent for more advice.
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