The SWAN system
Effective nutrient cycling - cow

Assessment of the potential financial benefits and risks of adopting improved effluent management

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The management of livestock manure is an important consideration for sustainable agriculture on dairy farms. Manure is both a waste product with the potential to pollute, and a potential fertiliser. Whether it trends more towards the one or the other depends largely on how it is managed.

Measuring for irrigation efficiency: A case study of water use on pasture-based dairy farms

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Improving the efficiency of irrigation water use on farms can reduce input costs, improve the sustained delivery of available water to pastures and enhance the provision of water-related ecosystem services.

Measuring for irrigation efficiency

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The case study was aimed at finding opportunities for pasture-based farmers to use water more efficiently by the installation of water meters on centre pivots, which accurately measured how much was water is used for irrigation.

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