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Five earn grants for environment Representatives of five farms involved in the North Otago irrigation scheme have been recognised for their environmental management in the 2015-16 season. Each of the farms – operated by Callum and Twyla Kingan, Grant and Becca Isbister, and Francois Tillard – won a North Otago Irrigation Company grant of $1000 for use in native or riparian planting. “Despite challenging times for farmers, the five farms maintained a high priority for environmental stewardship,” says company chairman Leigh Hamilton. Special mention should also be made of the recipients’ on-farm staff, he says. NOIC’s external, environmental farm-plan auditor, Ian Brown, says farmers in the scheme
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have good irrigation operating procedures in place as part of staff training. However, an area needing work is the use of soil-moisture probes to schedule irrigation: “While many farms are taking this approach, embedding this in normal farm decisionmaking is the goal for NOIC.” . Two environmental update workshops were run in July for shareholders. These involved feedback on environmental farm-plan auditing and monitoring, discussion on what is working well, what is not, and what is needed. A nutrient budget specialist and NOIC’s environmental manager offered advice, and oversaw a case-study on a farm with the aim of improving practices and demonstrating impact on the environment.
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