Selecting farm practices and preparing farm plans for land-use consents in the Manawatu-Wanganui region

Authors

  • T.G. Parminter

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.2015.77.464

Abstract

Throughout 2014, the Manawatu-Wanganui Regional Council and DairyNZ worked with 10 farm consultants assisting dairy farmers preparing farm plans for the regional OnePlan and reducing their risks of contaminating local waterways. Twenty-three farm plans that had been produced with the support of five farm consultants were examined. Starting with average annual leaching losses of 23-71 kgN/ha, these plans included a range of mitigation practices to achieve reductions in nitrate losses of 5-15%. Although they had been developed independently, similar practices were bundled together in the plans to match the needs of each farmer's circumstances and particular farming systems. This work suggests that although a short list of mitigation practices may be able to be selected for application on farms, the impact of those practices upon each farm business will each need to be determined in order to reliably enhance farm sustainability and viability across a catchment. Keywords: consultancy, OnePlan, consents, farming systems

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Published

2015-01-01

How to Cite

Parminter, T. (2015). Selecting farm practices and preparing farm plans for land-use consents in the Manawatu-Wanganui region. Journal of New Zealand Grasslands, 77, 275–280. https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.2015.77.464

Issue

Volume 77, 2015, Masterton

Section

Past volumes

License

Copyright

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Rights granted to the New Zealand Grassland Association through this agreement are non-exclusive. You are free to publish the work(s) elsewhere and no ownership is assumed by the NZGA when storing or curating an electronic version of the work(s). The author(s) will receive no monetary return from the Association for the use of material contained in the manuscript. If I am one of several co-authors, I hereby confirm that I am authorized by my co-authors to grant this Licence as their agent on their behalf. For the avoidance of doubt, this includes the rights to supply the article in electronic and online forms and systems.