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Schools Property Planning Competition 2013 “Waitara”

Schools Property Planning Competition 2013 “Waitara”. Property Management Planning. Is an “ongoing process for total management of a farm business which assists producers to improve their profitability and achieve more sustainable natural resource use”. Plan. Do. Review. Check.

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Schools Property Planning Competition 2013 “Waitara”

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  1. Schools Property Planning Competition 2013“Waitara”

  2. Property Management Planning • Is an “ongoing process for total management of a farm business which assists producers to improve their profitability and achieve more sustainable natural resource use”

  3. Plan Do Review Check • Effective planning requires the assessment and consideration of all resources • It also requires continual improvement

  4. Setting the Scene You are a team of farm advisory consultants who have been asked by the landholder to plan the property ensuring it is both ecologically and economically sustainable.

  5. The Question • Your task is to use the principles of whole farm planning to plan the sustainable and profitable development of your case study farm. • You need to develop a map, where you will mark on where the infrastructure will be located. In each of the paddocks you will need to decide how you think they should be managed to ensure the sustainability of the farm in the long term. • When you finish your map of the property you are to write a 4-5 page report that explains and justifies the decisions you have made in your plan.

  6. Up for Grabs

  7. What are the Assets? • Think about what you see at “Waitara” • What are the resources available to the landholders?

  8. Assets could include: • Soil and nutrients • Water / Dams / Soil Moisture • Infrastructure • Pasture / Groundcover • Biodiversity – Remnant Vegetation • Knowledge/Networks • Equity / Cash

  9. Soil constraints: Some problems you just shouldn’t ignore!

  10. Which is the Healthy Soil?

  11. Soils • Soil landscape info in your resource book • What do you remember from the Field Day? • Soil relates to land capability

  12. Land Capability • What is it? • What are the main indicators of land capability?

  13. Why use grazing management strategies to improve catchment health? • Maintaining adequate groundcover to reduce run off. • Prevent soil erosion. • Improve soil health. • Increase perenniality. • Improve the quality of water entering waterways. • Reduce deep drainage. • Resist weed invasion. Salinity outbreak area with saltbush plants on ‘Waitara’

  14. Aboriginal Land Use • The local Kamilaroi people have asked the land manager if they may assist with conservation works such as tree planting and maintenance of a small site significant to them on ‘Waitara’. As the farm advisor, in your report briefly describe for the landholder a recommended common sense process as to how to manage this. • Aspects to consider include: • Nature of conservation work Kamilaroi people are interested in • Assessment of frequency, scale and impact of activity • Benefits and risks to the landholder and to the Kamilaroi participants • Potential impact on productivity and cost to landholder/Kamilaroi participants • Potential security issues • Ongoing maintenance expectations

  15. The main challenges on ‘Waitara’ are:1. the landholders time – working full time off farm 2. provision of water for stock 3. seasonal feed value and availability4. shade and shelter for stock5. control of erosion and scalded areas6. control of salinity7. selecting appropriate grazing and or cropping enterprises*Each of these challenges needs to be addressed in the property plan.

  16. Provision of waterThis is the most important and the first step. Without stock water, the plan cannot proceed.

  17. Quality vs. livestock production • Trials compared • Old farm dams • Dam water pumped to a trough • Fresh water from a trough

  18. Plan the fencesThis will be guided by watering points, but also by the different soil types, drainage lines, erosion and planned stock movements (ie – location of yards, laneways, etc)

  19. Hazards or Liabilities • Soil erosion – gully, sheet, rill • Soil structure decline • Loss in Groundcover and desirable perennial pasture species • Excess moisture loss • Biodiversity • Infrastructure – fencing and water • Shade trees for shelter

  20. What are some suggestions you can make to the landholders? Grazing • Improving groundcover and diversity • Using fertiliser • Suggestions for winter feed gap Cropping • Discuss limitations, opportunities, impacts and management Other enterprise opportunities • Consider farm stays, • other ideas

  21. Any other suggestions? The role of: • Earthworks – gully control structures and management of these structures • Fencing • Planning paddocks – size, shape • Fertiliser • Farm trees • Improving biodiversity • Other enterprises…..

  22. A helpful hint…. • When you make suggestions – think about how these are going to be managed. • How are the landholders going to know they have achieved their goals? (Monitoring) • How are they going to measure the improvements?

  23. MARKING SCHEDULE Part A

  24. MARKING SCHEDULE Part B

  25. www.namoi.cma.nsw.gov.au

  26. Good Luck! Best two entries due in by 27 May

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