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Review of New Zealand Environmental Farm Plans

May 2003, Ref. TR128

Farm planning is a mechanism for identifying and documenting actions and timeframes to achieve desired outcomes, these can range from purely financial and production objectives to a wide range of environmental outcomes.

Farm plans have, since the 1940’s, assisted New Zealand farmers and the councils in catchment management. Soil conservation programmes dominated early environmental farm plans. However, since the early 1990’s, these farm plans have expanded to address a range of farm improvements in addition to soil conservation (e.g. water quality, waste, biodiversity, animal welfare, riparian zones, etc).

This report consolidates all of the different farm plans currently in use in New Zealand into one document. The report sets out the components of the range of farm plans, how they are used by regional councils and industry and discusses their relative merits and effectiveness in environmental management on farms.

By identifying and documenting critical factors/elements and successful methods of farm plans, the Ministry can encourage better environmental farm plans or perhaps the development of a farm plan template.

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Contents:

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Executive summary

  1. Introduction
  2. Methods
  3. What is environmental farm planning?
  4. Overview of current regional council involvement in environmental farm planning
  5. Other organisations’ involvement in environmental farm planning
  6. Discussion
  7. Conclusions

References

Appendix 1: Survey Questionnaire

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