Ballance Farm Sustainability

Our Services and Approach

Supporting your farm planning journey

We understand that to do the work that you love doing, you need to be productive and profitable. We are here to help you find the sweet spot, so you can be productive, profitable and sustainable into the future. We are flexible in our approach and have local experts that understand the rules, and help make things simple.

Whether you need a nutrient budget, farm plan, or help applying for consent, the team are here to support you with industry leading tools and advice.

Our wide range of services include:


Nutrient Budgets
Provide a picture of inputs, outputs and losses for a particular year, or modelling of how system changes will impact nutrient flows on farm.



Farm Planning
Sustainably managing soil, water and nutrient resources on farm. Reflect environmental risks and opportunities and set actions for how to manage these.
 


MitAgator Risk Maps
Bring your OverseerFM nutrient budget to life and display hotspot ‘critical source areas’ for nitrogen, phosphate, sediment and E.coli losses.
 


MitAgator Scenarios
Mitigation scenarios suggest suitable mitigation actions for these hotspot areas and quantify the improvement in these areas while ranking the cost effectiveness of each mitigation option.

Farm Sustainability Services

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As a co-operative, we are here to help, and this means finding a solution that works for you. Get in touch with your local Farm Sustainability team to find out how we can help you.

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Our approach

Our services are designed to support farmers on a long-term journey towards environmental stewardship and kaitiakitanga. Whether you are starting out and want to ensure your farm meets compliance, or are dreaming up an intergenerational environmental strategy, it is important to get tailored support.

The graphic below illustrates how perspectives can evolve over time—from Compliance, asking, "What is the bare minimum I need to do?" to Excellence, with a focus on "How can I elevate my farm to the next level?" and finally to Generational thinking: "How can I set my farm up for the next hundred years?".

Farm Sustainability Services, supporting your farm planning journey. Our services; Intensive Winter Grazing Plan (IWG), Freshwater Farm Plan (FWFP), Farm Environment Plans (FEP) and Integrated Farm Plans (IFP)

Our dedicated team is here to support you on this journey, get in touch with our Farm Sustainability team today.

Email: farm.sustainability@ballance.co.nz
Phone: 0800 222 090