National Environmental Standards for Freshwater - Useful Resources

Do you have a waterway, lake or wetland on your property?

Horizons brochures:

• Stock exclusion
• Fish passage

Ministry for the Environment factsheets:

• Stock exclusion
• Wetlands
• Avoiding loss of rivers
• Fish passage

Are you planning to increase your irrigation by 10ha or more on a dairy farm?

Ministry for the Environment factsheets:

• Measuring and reporting of water takes

Are you planning on installing a culvert?

Horizons brochures:

• Fish passage
• Consents for culverts

Ministry for the Environment factsheets:

• Fish passage
• Stock exclusion

Do you winter graze on an annual forage crop?

Horizons brochures:

• Intensive winter grazing
• IWG flowchart

Dairy NZ information:

• Wintering

Beef + Lamb NZ information:

• Intensive winter grazing 2021

Do you hold cattle at a density that stops vegetation growing (e.g. a feedlot or stockholding area)?

Horizons brochures:

• Stockholding and feedlots

Ministry for the Environment factsheets:

• Stockholding and feedlots
• Stockholding definition guidance

Do you use synthetic nitrogen on pastoral land?

Ministry for the Environment factsheets:

• Managing nitrogen
• Synthetic nitrogen

Dairy NZ information:

• Managing nitrogen fertiliser

Are you planning to increase the amount of land or converting some of your land to dairy or dairy support?

Ministry for the Environment factsheets:

• Agricultural intensification

Are you planning to convert forestry to pastoral land?

Ministry for the Environment factsheets:

• Agricultural intensification

Are you planning to convert pastoral land to dairy farm land?

Ministry for the Environment factsheets:

• Agricultural intensification

Are you planning to increase the area of dairy support?

Ministry for the Environment factsheets:

• Agricultural intensification