Ngāi Tahu Farming’s 380 ha dairy farm near Oxford – Dairy Farm One – has been awarded the Environment Canterbury Water Quality Award at the regional Ballance Farm Environment Awards in Christchurch (held on Thursday March 20, 2014). The farm – which has 1300 cows on a flat-contoured milking platform – is in its second year of production after forestry land was cleared between 2007 and 2011. The award judges described the property as an impressive large-scale dairy conversion with a clearly developed strategy and the impressive use of technology for monitoring. They also noted there had been extensive efforts to understand and minimise the impact of the farm business on water quality. Judges comments: An impressive dairy conversion development from forestry: clearly developed strategy, excellent systems and use of monitoring technology Extensive efforts to understand and minimise the impact of the farm business on water quality Displaying excellence in … Continue reading Ngāi Tahu Farming wins water quality award