A DIGITAL TOOL FOR FRESHWATER FARM PLANNING
– Josh Wheeler COO QCONZ

Over the last 5 years QCONZ has been busy developing its people and IT solutions to support our clients with the increased focus around Freshwater quality.

Our core business is auditing and we are now positioning ourselves to provide audit services for FWFP’s. Recently we have been appointed as the Nationwide Auditing body for the New Zealand Farm Assurance
Program (NZFAP) for the Meat and Wool Industry. When this work is considered alongside our existing
auditing work for the dairy industry, we will now be delivering audit services on over 20,000 farms
nationally. We see a real opportunity for our nationwide team to delivery FWFP audits alongside our
other audit programmes, ensuring cost effective delivery and reduced audit burden. Our audit team
digital solutions will make this a seamless process for the Farmers, Growers and Councils.

Click the link below to read The full article in NZARMs broadsheet issue 43 page 18.

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Freshwater Farm Plan (FWFP) software was showcased at the Fieldays earlier this month.  

The product made it into the Innovation tent after a pre-selection as a finalist for the Innovations Awards.  FWFP software (in development) was entered into the ‘early stage’ category.  

This was an opportunity to discuss the industry and requirements and how our products fit as part of the massive suite of tools and services that NZ farmers are presented with. Verifies that we have a couple of unique and valuable products that are worthwhile for farmers. Additionally, it significantly raised our profile with other companies – they all know who we are and what we can offer. – Justin Moss.

Traditionally this event takes place in June, so foot traffic this year was noticeably lighter with milking in full swing paired with farm staff shortages.  What we lost in foot traffic however, was made up with some great B2B networking opportunities.

A big thank you to Gavin and our design team in Tauranga who delivered two great looking stands and the promotional literature to go with it.  Thank you also to the dedicated team who helped Josh and Justin showcase our software over the four days and help raise the profile of QCONZ.

QCONZ was thrilled to be a major sponsor of the New Zealand Association of Resource Management (NZARM) conference which took place between 17 -19 October in Wellington.

We joined the likes of (among others) DairyNZ, Manaaki Whenua (Landcare Research) and the Ministry for the Environment in our support of, and commitment to Environmental Sustainability.

Josh Wheeler, Murray Pedley and Tash Pivott attended and staffed the QCONZ stand and showcased the Freshwater Farm Plan system we are developing. This will be an affordable and user-friendly tool which will allow farmers and farm consultants to electronically build a farm plan to meet regulatory requirements and manage environmental risk on farm. Industry representatives showed great support for the system which we will be launching at the National Fieldays this year.

NZARM is a member-based organisation whose goal is to promote the philosophy, science, and practice of resource management in New Zealand, with particular emphasis on land and water resource management.

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