Owl Farm case study - Soil health

This page from Owl Farm, a demonstration dairy farm in the Waikato, covers the makeup of its soils and the testing programme it runs to keep them healthy. It describes the farm's soil types and land use capability classification, and the physical, chemical and biological tests it relies on, including Visual Soil Assessments carried out with Ballance Agri-Nutrients.

It also sets out the on-farm practices used to protect soil, such as direct drilling, planted river buffers, retiring steep land and avoiding pugging damage in wet weather.