Farmers must be very cautious when applying nitrogen fertilisers to pasture during winter, says Environment Waikato sustainable agriculture coordinator Bala Tikkisetty.
Environment Waikato has awarded its Dame Te Atairangikaahu Scholarship to University of Waikato students Tredegar Rangiatea Hall and Christina Couling.
Fines totaling $42,000 have been handed down to two Hauraki-based dairy farm owners and a sharemilker in the latest sentencing for dairy effluent offences.
It’s been a very busy year for Ruben the road safety bear, Environment Waikato’s popular road safety mascot.
Environment Waikato says it will be taking a more intensive approach to monitoring of dairy farms during the 2010-11 season.
Environment Waikato’s Taupo office will celebrate the tenth anniversary of its opening next month.
Environment Waikato (Waikato Regional Council) has announced that nominations have opened for candidates wishing to stand in this year’s elections to the region
Environment Waikato is welcoming Government plans to implement changes relating to the development of aquaculture, including in the Waikato region, says the council’s policy group manager Vaughan Payne.
Environment Waikato has established a new internet-based trading noticeboard for farmers wishing to buy, sell or lease nitrogen under the new Variation 5 policy to protect Lake Taupo.
Environment Waikato is enthusiastically backing a proposal to get youth input into ways of encouraging good behavior by school children on buses.
Environment Waikato and two landowners have agreed a way forward on possum control on properties in the Mokauiti 1 section of the Central King Country priority possum control area.
All local roads not being equal, the introduction of a new safety ‘star’ rating for New Zealand’s roads generally will help improve safety on the Waikato’s high-risk rural roads.
The Regional Transport Committee has taken a major step in working towards zero discharge of stock effluent from trucks onto Waikato roads by 2020. This week, the committee endorsed the Regional Stock Truck Effluent Strategy, recommending it to the Waikato Regional Council for adoption.
Environment Waikato continues to make good progress through its policy development to do more to protect water quality in the region, says policy committee chair Paula Southgate.
Environment Waikato has confirmed passenger transport preparations are well underway in advance of the World Rowing Championships, in October and November 2010 and the Rugby World Cup, in September and October 2011.
A co-owner of the McIntyre piggery near Morrinsville has been fined $45,000 for odour-related offences which forced local schoolchildren to pinch their noses to block intense smells in class.