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2024 - Ministry for the Environment. Responding to the Overseer model redevelopment review: A guide for councils.
This guide supports councils to assess and respond to the OverseerFM review 2021 and subsequent redevelopment, completed October 2023. It does not constitute government direction. Previous Ministry...
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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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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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Overseer Model Description
Overseer Model Description (June 2025) is your one-stop technical primer on what really powers OverseerFM. Today’s cloud platform grew from a 1980s fertiliser calculator into New Zealand’s flagship...
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Definitions of Areas in Overseer
Overseer uses a number of different descriptions of area, for modelling and reporting purposes. In June 2025, following extensive industry consultation, reporting for a "Milk Platform" and "Red Mea...
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How to Copy an existing analysis
If a farm account has existing analyses, using this function saves the need to re-enter all the data about a farm - it is the most appropriate way of producing a new Year End for reporting purpos...
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Why was the '+Add snowfall' function removed?
OverseerFM utilises climate data from the NIWA virtual climate network (VCN) which provides annual climate data inputs for a given reference point on a 500m grid. In the interests of simplifying th...
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How is distance from coast calculated?
For a block, distance from coast (Kilometres) is the distance from the coast in the direction of the prevailing wind, it determines the amount of sulphur (S) and cations (K, Ca, Mg, Na) deposited a...
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How is modelled topography determined?
In the interests of simplifying the data entry requirements for creating a new analysis, the Overseer team are focused on enabling more effortless ingress of data. In line with this focus, we have ...
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What supplements in OverseerFM meet "grass fed" standards?
With the launch of the MPI Grass-Fed Administrative Standards in June 2025 OverseerFM has moved on from the the old draft AsureQuality Grass-Fed Standard and now uses the terms of the MPI dairy and...