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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