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Are you managing rainwater like a waste product?

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Rain is always welcome on our lands. It is our responsibility as good water stewards to use it as the valuable resource which it is

Irrigation

How can you ensure water is not being wasted?

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Sometimes I wonder if we actually realise the extent to which water management influences the entire farm system? From the health of the soil, to pasture growth and production, to milk production, to holistic farm efficiency and profitability.

Soil water holding capacity

Healthy soil equals healthy milk

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In order to get the desired amount and quality of milk, cows need healthy pastures to graze on.

Be a steward of water!

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Water stewardship is defined as being the use of freshwater that is “socially equitable, environmentally sustainable and economically beneficial, achieved through a stakeholder-inclusive process that involves site and catchment-based actions”.