Winning hearts and minds
Environmental Stewardship
(planning meeting 27/4/17, Lincoln)

Existing projects

Farming within limits

Environmental economics

Proposed sub-projects

Environmental Science and partnerships
(WQ, water quantity, biodiversity)

Regional Policy

Climate change policy

Environmental economics

Catchment/regional engagement

Sustainable milk plans

Objectives for meeting

Review, scope, prioritise national/regional
science needs for:

Scoping Env Stewardship and Policy sub-projects

5 year DairyNZ vision, strategy, action plan (31 May)

Input into national/regional policy discussion

What are key enviro issues regionally/nationally
linking to policy

What is our science/policy strategy

  • what's in/out of scope
  • strategic partners

What key projects/activities should we undertake/
investigate over the short, medium, long-term

Edge of field mitigations
(med-long term)

Riparian
(med-long term)

Wetland
(med-long term)

FIF (WQ, biodiversity)
targeted buffers
national scale
#

FIF (WQ)

Living-waters partnership
very large catchment
coordinated planting approach
existing long-term mon site

guidelines and expected performance

catchment scale resources
(med-long term)

Top of catchment planting vs
bottom up or random
(modelling approach?)

Parkyn et al (2005)Predictions of stream nutrient
and sediment yield changes following restoration
of forested riparian buffers - for nuts and sed better
to start in headwaters (modelling)

KIS: Enviro limits relating to dairying
are based on sound science and policy

Tools

Defining expectations (timesframes)

Biodiversity

Macroinvertebrate NOF objectives

Drivers of condition:
what to manage for to improve:

Nutrients #

Periphyton

Inverts

Sed #

Bacteria

Ensuring they work

wetlands

Productive buffers

Productive riparian buffers
(med term)

Fodder crops, harvesting

Climate change (med term)

Dealing with extremes
and higher intensity events

Ensuring mitigations are not
destroyed by extreme events

Likely some sort of invert objective

DIN

Relationship between DIN and MCI or other invertebrate metrics, and/or plant and algae life

DIN
(Short-term)

Literature review
(short-term)

Incentivising WQ
(long-term)

Premium milk price for meeting
environmental criteria

Pee catcher
(long-term)

Cultural health???
(long-term)

Shade

macrophyte reduction vs
instream nutrient processing and
sediment deposition

Communication of science?

Credible evidence
(short-term)

Native vs exotic species

Sediment traps

To farmers

To regional authorities

To science providers

To broader public

Sediment. Instream vs critical source
(short-med)

Strategic partners

NIWA

Regional Councils

Universities

Canterbury's FERG

Living water, Fonterra, DoC

MfE

Cawthron

MPI

Dairy Environment Leadership group

Community groups

Riparian planner
(med term)

Decision support system for more
specific planting plans

Linking The Sustainable Dairying:
Water Accord (2013) with Regional Plans

Riparian setbacks (min distance, how
related to slope etc)

Maori agribusiness

Beef and Lamb

Fed farmers

Dairy Companies Association

Dairy Women's Network

Working at the catchment scale

Waikato - lakes

Otago - multiple stressors

Auckland - bacteria

Regional programme of action

Expectations/commitments

Riparian management

Are commitments being met?
Resulting in improved WQ?

Fencing

90% exclusion by 2014,
100% by 2017

Planting

50% of dairy farms will have rip mangt plan by 2016

Completed half by 2020

full implementation by 2030

100% with rip mangt plan by 2020

Does the Accord meet or
exceed Regional Plan requirements?

Sustainable Dairying: Water Accord
(short-term)

Update and ensure at minimum meet regional plan requirements

Nutrient management

Wetlands 100% by 2014

Collect data on N and P loss,
feed info back to farmers

85% by 2014

100% by 2015

If fully allocated nutrient
assimilative capacity in catchment

reduce N and P loss (N through Overseer)

GMPs

Manage P loss associated with sed
discharge, runoff and overland flows

Stock exclusion and rip mangt

Stock crossings

GMPs

tracks, races, winter cropping

Effluent

Water use management

85% with water meters by 2020

Riparian

Policy questions

Identifying information needs for next round of plans (20 yrs)

Push back on inappropriate regulation? Or
implement the Accord?

High priority

DairyNZ

Regional plan development

Land use change not appropriate in some catchments

Use of OVERSEER in rules

On-farm limits (farm plans and GMP)

Waikato

5-10 years = Waikato/Waipa Plan change 1
10-15 years = review

Short-term

N:P ratio. Managing N to reduce reduced clarity if chla goes up

Interim guidance for mitigations (CWsm RBs)

Farmer change management

Accounting system to demonstrate WQ progress following PC1

Long-term

preparing for more challenging limits on discharges

Land use suitability

Models to predict rules on different sub-catchments

Bay of Plenty

Short-term

Review modelling approach,
community feels left out

Long-term

Sediment

Horizons

Greater Wellington

Whaitua limit-setting process
3 catchments
limit setting policy 2018

Very collaborative process
Science communication

Very complex modelling

Hawkes Bay RC

Plan change 2018

Low priority

Northland RC

Holding pattern plan change

Short-term

Water use efficiency
support water metering

Long-term

Sediment impacts

Hawkes Bay RC

Tukituki

Sediment

Riparian margins

Phosphorus mitigations

BoP

Water use efficiency
support water metering

GWRC

Hearings

Stock exclusion 24 June

Water allocation 11 August

PC10 review 2020/21

Science review N and P ratios

P mitigations on-farm impacts

Taranaki

Riparian

Auckland

Unknown if SeaChange will require stricter limits

Long-term

Sediment impacts

Tile drains

Water quality issues in last 100 years (issues)

Landuse conversions, intensification

Inappropriate use

Peat land drainage

Irrigation

Legacy effects

drainage, catchment boards channilisation

point source pollutants

regulation of aquarium trade

Effluent treatment pond discharges

Pastoral 21

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