INTEGRATED FARM PLAN

Integrated Farm Plans (IFP) address GHG (greenhouse gas emissions), freshwater quality, indigenous biodiversity, and the landscape associated with individual farms. IFP respond to the underlying natural and cultural diversity of Aotearoa NZ - the great biophysical, historic and social variation in the ‘land of little landscapes’. The current farm regime is first identified and mapped, then alternative land-use and management options are planned to transition production toward net Carbon Zero, healthy ecosystems, and, sustainable landscapes. Dairy, sheep and beef, cropping, and high country farms are being addressed in terms of farm production from “cradle to farm gate”. An IFP provides guidance to reduce or mitigate effects, and to adapt to increasing environmental pressures. GHG emissions that cannot be avoided are addressed through insetting, that is, on-farm works, not offsetting.