Good management practice
Each factsheet or guide below highlights an area where adopting good management practices can have a positive effect on water quality. If you'd like more information on any of these areas, please contact one of our Land Sustainability Officers for some free, one-on-one advice.
General
Factsheet - Farm Environmental Management Plans
Case Study - Stop your farm going down the drain
Excluding stock from waterbodies
Factsheet - Excluding stock from waterbodies
Riparian management
Factsheet - Creating Riparian Zones
Factsheet - Design and Cost of Fencing
Factsheet - Identifying weeds in riparian zones
Factsheet - Maintaining Riparian Zones
Factsheet - Pest Animals in Riparian Zones
Factsheet - Riparian Plants for Southland
Factsheet - Weed and sediment removal for drainage maintenance
Factsheet - Techniques for weed control
Nutrient management
Factsheet - Nutrient Management
Factsheet - Artificial drainage
Factsheet - Deep drainage of nitrogen
Factsheet - General good management practices - Applies to all physiographic zones
Factsheet - Lateral and deep drainage
Factsheet - Overland flow
Case Study - Stop your nutrients going underground
Factsheet - Consent advice for replacing your dairy effluent discharge
Factsheet - Cultivation
Factsheet - Feed pads/lots
Winter grazing
Factsheet - Critical Source Areas
Factsheet - Intensive winter grazing
Our website now features a cultivation and intensive winter grazing mapping tool; a checklist to see whether resource consent is required; and an online resource consent application process. Find all of these forms and tools here.
