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01-11-2012 09:36 AM
| New Zealand
Soil biology is key to saving fertility
Complacency is costing us some of our best soils, says ecologist and educator Nicole Masters.
New Zealand is losing 11 tonnes of topsoil per hectare a year, more than 10 times the global average, she said during a recent Beef + Lamb New Zealand field day held at Claire Parkes and Simon Vincent's farm near Wakefield in the Nelson region, and attended by about 35 farmers.
New Zealand is losing 11 tonnes of topsoil per hectare a year, more than 10 times the global average, she said during a recent Beef + Lamb New Zealand field day held at Claire Parkes and Simon Vincent's farm near Wakefield in the Nelson region, and attended by about 35 farmers.
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