A large-scale environmental farm management and monitoring project in Waikato is expected to have flow-on benefits for the entire dairy industry.
Waikato River Authority has granted industry body DairyNZ $685,000 towards a three-year project to reduce nutrient and sediment loads in the river's upper Karapiro catchment.
The dairy industry will contribute two-thirds of the cost of the project, which Dairy NZ's chief executive Tim Mackle says is the biggest catchment clean-up exercise the sector has been involved in.
The Karapiro project will provide a guide for environmental management in other catchments also, he says.
