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2010 - Moir, Cameron, Di & Fertsak - Urine patch area coverage of an intensively stocked dairy pasture
The urine patch of the grazing cow has been identified as the key source of N loss from pasture-based dairysystems. Although critical to N modelling, quantitative data on the annual area coverage o...
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2015 - Buckthought, Clough, Cameron, Di - Urine patch and fertiliser N interaction
Urine patch and fertiliser N interaction: Effects of fertiliser rate and season of urine application on nitrate leaching and pasture N uptake. The objective of this study was therefore, to understa...
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2020 - van der Weerden, Noble, Luo, de Klein et al - Meta-analysis of New Zealand’s nitrous oxide emission factors for ruminant excreta supports disaggregation based on excreta form, livestock type and slope class.
The objective of this study was to determine the most suitable urine and dung EF3 values for dairy cattle, non-dairy cattle, and sheep grazing pastures on different slopes based on a meta-analysis ...
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2026 - Tavernet & Wheeler - Adding Effluent Pond Methane Reduction technology into Overseer
This report provides a detailed account of the integration of the EcoPond™ system for reducing methane emissions from dairy effluent ponds.This treatment includes both the original polyferric sulph...
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Glossary of Terms used in the Overseer model
Included here is a glossary of terms used in the Overseer software - OverseerFM, OverseerSci and OverseerEd. This glossary is also useful for understanding reporting in release notes and impact ass...
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Modelling flexible milking systems
Overseer has traditionally only been able to model relatively simplistic milking frequencies. Work by DairyNZ has shown that increasingly farmers are adapting their milking frequency according to s...
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OverseerFM release version 6.5.13 (flexible milking & chemical mitigation of effluent methane)
We released an update to OverseerFM on 17 May 2026. The update of the Overseer model to release version 6.5.13 includes two significant feature updates: The full release of Chemical Mitigation of E...
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Managing a farm account name
Farm account names should reflect the names by which a farm is known. Unfortunately all who work in NZ agriculture know that these can be varied - a farm name, a business name, a colloquial name. A...
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How to download maps
Users are able to download farm maps from OverseerFM analyses. To download a farm map, navigate to the Blocks tab within an analysis, and select the "Download farm map" button. Maps will be downloa...
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How to lock / unlock analyses
Users are now able to lock analyses. To use the "Lock/Unlock" functionality you must have Owner or Admin access to a farm account. This tool should be used sparingly, where changes to the analysis ...