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About BestFarms and how we help
you to create your own EMS Action Plan
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The Blackwood Basin Group
developed the BestFarms EMS project in 2002 to help landholders
identify and manage environmental impacts on their properties, such
as salinity, water quality and soil improvement.
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development of a BestFarms Environmental Farm Action Plan involves
identifying environmental impacts on your property and developing
on-ground actions that will address these impacts over
time.
Participants
learn how to set achievable environmental targets, how to undertake
on-ground works effectively and how to monitor their progress over
time. Monitoring workshops are held to give farmers a hands on look
at some easy to do, monitoring activities that can be done
on-farm.
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An Environmental Management
System
(EMS) helps you build a practical Farm Plan,
to manage environmental issues and systematically improve the
environmental health of your
property.
BestFarms uses a common sense Plan,
Do, Check & Review process which enables planning of on-farm
activities and continual improvement of your
business.
BestFarm
Benefits
- Network with like-minded
people
- Minimal paperwork and one-to-one support
- Recognition of your environmental efforts
- Keep up to date with relevant legislation
- A documented farm plan - enhances funding applications, useful
for succession planning
- Improved communication and decision making
- Opportunities to attend field days and demonstrations
- Access to best management practice information and
equipment
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BestFarms training materials include easy-to-use
templates to help develop your BestFarms EMS
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Monitoring Made
Easy...As you implement the
on-ground works in your Farm Action Plan, you can monitor and
record your progress.
The BestFarms Monitoring kit, pictured below left, contains
practical, user-friendly equipment to monitor the impact that
your actions are having on your property's
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Training Workshops
- Our two-day practical and
informative workshops are a great way to meet other landholders. At
the end of the workshop, you will have developed your own Farm
Action Plan to address your top priority environmental
issues. You will also learn how to implement your BestFarms
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