Cadmium (Cd) accumulation in agricultural soils is a global issue, because its transfer to edible parts of common crop plants can pose a risk to food security. Soil Cd concentrations in NZ agricultural systems have been ...

There is large potential for widespread development and increased production in South Island hill and high country by increasing legume production. Despite regular past applications of superphosphate fertiliser, current ...

Phosphorus (P) can be leached from intensive land uses, including grazed dairy farming. There is some evidence to suggest that P-leaching can enrich groundwater, especially where fertiliser or farm dairy effluent P (FDE) ...

Iodine (I) is an essential trace element commonly deficient in agricultural systems. Whereas there is much information on I in food crops, there is a lacuna of knowledge on the environmental factors that affect pasture I ...

Density-induced soil structural changes may potentially alter both soil total porosity and soil pore size distribution, and thus change the soil’s water retention characteristics, gas diffusion and transport properties, ...