Farm planning

A well designed farm plan can improve the productivity and sustainability of your farm.

The Land Health program delivers farm planning to groups through:

• structured training courses
• online delivery
• informal series of field days.

Courses are tailored to cover local issues.

Farm planning covers the following topics with farm mapping built into each:

• vision and goal setting
• soil productivity and soil health
• land capability
• farm water supply
• grazing and pasture management
• cropping systems
• risk management (such as climate and fire)
• relevant legislations
• business management and succession planning.

Our services

Farm planning can help farmers to:

• make informed decisions to improve productivity and manage business risks
• better understand their soils and improve soil productivity
• match their enterprise and management to land capability and protect natural assets
• improve grazing and pasture management
• use nutrients more efficiently
• use water more efficiently, improve capture and storage, undertake a water budget and understand water quality issues
• improve management of soils in relation to cropping.