Monitoring tools
Quickchecks - Natural Resource Monitoring Tools for Woolgrowers: tools to measure the health of your pastures, soils, woody vegetation, farm watercourses, paddock production levels and birds. Order your free copy on-line at: http://products.lwa.gov.au/products.asp
The MLA Pasture Health Kit – a field kit for producers to assess pasture health in the paddock. The kit can be ordered from MLA by:
Monitoring change in native pastures – shows how pasture monitoring can improve grazing management and maintain pasture productivity. It also describes some objective methods for monitoring native pastures. Download pdf (314KB) for free from:
http://products.lwa.gov.au/downloads/publications_pdf/PN061152_ch12.pdf
Self-assessment tools
Landleader – a voluntary tool that aims to identify and promote the environmental and livestock stewardship credentials of the wool and red meat industries. Visit the website at:www.landleader.com.au/
Farming for the Future Self Assessment Tool – move towards a sustainable farm business that is optimising its natural, financial and social resources by completing this Self-Assessment Tool, and/or implementing any number of the practices on your farm. Download the tool from: www.agric.wa.gov.au/content/SUST/f4fhomepage.htm
FarmSAT – producers of any commodity can quickly assess environmental assurance issues relevant to their enterprise. Visit the website and download the tool from: www.tfga.com.au/pages/TFGAFarmSATProject.htm
Environmental Management Systems (EMS) for Victorian Agriculture: describes two new tools – EMS and BushTender – that could be used to drive sustainable development for biodiversity. Visit: www.dpi.vic.gov.au/dpi/vro/vrosite.nsf/pages/lwm_biodiversity and click on Environmental Management Systems (EMS) under “Related Links”.
The Leakage Calculator: WA sheep producers can quantify the amount of water leaking past the root zone of agricultural plants with a view to tailoring recharge minimising strategies for salinity management. Visit: http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/content/lwe/salin/sman/leakagecalculator_webinfo.htm |
