Environmental Resources

The Sustainable Vegetable Systems project has turned this invisible element into a visible nitrogen budget that integrates the latest modelled flows with soil nitrogen testing. This resource summarises the Sustainable Vegetable Systems Programme.

This resource details N soil testing and how to interpret a laboratory test.

This User Guide has been prepared by Sarah Dobson and Andrew Barber of Agrilink NZ, with contributions from the wider Sustainable Vegetable Systems project team. The primary purpose of this Guide is to support users of the SVS Tool, www.svstool.co.nz. The SVS Tool is the main output from the Sustainable Vegetable Systems project.

This book is a resource of best-practice advice to manage the nutrition of vegetable crops in New Zealand. This book builds on the 1986 MAF published fertiliser recommendations with the results of a further thirty-odd years of research. In addition, there is information on environmental impacts and improving the efficiency of fertiliser use.

This document steps through the procedure for sampling vegetable crops for residue testing.

This document provides a summary of management practices for handling and applying neonicotinoid crop protection products

This poster provides information of what vegetable crops acephate and methamidophos crop protection products are permitted to be used on.

This poster is designed for growers when using a product off label on a crop or pest that is not listed on the label.

AgResearch is testing for suspected herbicide resistant plants. Download this form for instructions.

This CoP describes the best practices for minimising soil movement off farm

This CoP is designed to assist you in making decisions related to installing and maintaining vegetated buffer strips.