QCONZ FWFP features
The QCONZ FWFP is the perfect tool for farmers and growers seeking an easy, affordable, and well-supported way to build freshwater plans for their properties.
Benefits of a freshwater farm plan
- It helps you identify and mitigate environmental risks and meet regulation
- It helps farmers access cheaper finance (sustainable/green loans).
- It gives the owner peace of mind that risks are managed when setting the farm up for succession or bringing on share farmers.
- It makes the farm operation more appealing when looking to attract share farmers and staff.
- It gives potential property buyers more confidence a farm has been well managed and is compliant with local regulations.
- Creating the plan builds deeper understanding of your property’s risk profile and the mitigation options.
The QCONZ FWFP is the ideal tool for farmers and growers who want an easy to use, affordable, and well supported planning tool they can use to build fresh water plans for their properties – to ensure they keep ahead of regulation, help access cheaper finance and market premiums, and learn more about their land.
The QCONZ FWFP is the ideal tool for scheme managers who want to streamline their planning and reporting, gain a consolidated view of their members freshwater plans, and make meeting consent requirements an easier process.
The QCONZ FWFP is the ideal tool for catchment group managers who want an easy to use and affordable planning tool for their members that can consolidate member plans to catchment level views.
The QCONZ FWFP is the ideal tool for farm advisors who want an easy to use and affordable planning tool they can use to build fresh water plans for their clients.
The QCONZ FWFP is the ideal tool for organisations who want an easy to use and well supported freshwater planning tool their members and suppliers can use to build plans that can be consolidated to organisation-wide views.
Key Features
The QCONZ Freshwater Farm Plan tool is designed specifically for farmers and growers seeking an efficient way to create and manage their freshwater plans. With user-friendly features, you can easily monitor, update, and share your plans anytime.
Wizard function
The wizard guides you through each section step by step as you build your freshwater farm plan. This feature ensures ease of use, enabling you to create a comprehensive farm plan that is unique to your property.
Mobile companion app
The companion app allows users to easily add photos to mapped features and actions. You can take pictures with the camera or import from the phone’s photo gallery – faster and easier than uploading from your computer. The app also supports working with multiple properties.
Farm mapping
The tool includes a user-friendly farm mapping feature that integrates Google Maps technology, allowing easy and accurate plotting of land units and essential infrastructure. The tool is designed to be compatible with other mapping platforms, enabling easy data importing.
Meets regulations
The QCONZ FWFP tool is kept up to date to incorporate latest requirements of the Ministry for the Environment. This gives peace of mind you can build a plan that identifies all on-farm risks to fresh water and develop actions to mitigate these risks which is based on the farm landscape, farming activities, and the local catchment. Which is just what the regulators want.
Multiple users per farm
The software allows access for multiple users enabling farm staff and farm advisors to view and contribute to your farm plan.
Risk & action management
The tool incorporates pre-set risks and actions for the management of land, activities, and farm infrastructure, saving you time in building your plan. You can also adjust and add to the library of risks and actions. These combine into an action plan perfectly tailored for your property.
Multiple enterprises
If you have more than one farm in the same freshwater management unit (FMU) they can be incorporated within the same plan.
Compatible with other systems
The tool is designed to be compatible with other mapping platforms, enabling you to use existing mapping data for easy plan setup.
All Features
This feature set is continually being added to as we gain more user and regional council feedback on how to make this tool as user friendly and fit for purpose as possible.
- Create new or use any existing maps
- Extensive mapping with multi-layer upload options
- Show different map layers
- Companion mobile app for easier image capture and action management
- Preloaded regional catchment context, challenges and values (CCCV) information
- Links to relevant council and catchment websites
- Integration with FarmAPT Surface Water shows nearest LAWA test sites
- Contaminant self-evaluation for sheep and beef
- Risk finder and risk assessment – based on farming activities
- Add custom risks
- Highlight risk areas by associating actions against risks and map items (easily choose from lists)
- Record soil types and follow a soil test checklist
- Record actions directly against risks (allows one to many relationship)
- Add action evidence (images & text)
- Document previously done work
- Riparian areas
- Retired areas
- Fencing of waterways
- Stock policies
- Enterprise insights page for organizations (with multiple properties)
- Team insights view for organisations see who is doing what
- Create and print complete FWFP report in a single PDF, use for regulatory or other purposes
- Save report snapshot (with date stamp) in the FWFP
- Easily share reports with 3rd parties
- Separate reports focused on risks and actions (PDF or Excel)
- Generate regulatory MfE INFDP Admin or Action reports
- Generate and export GEOJSON file for regulator certification
- Action review and management with tables, pivots and 5-year Graph
- Manage regulatory certification and audit status
- Extensive insights into your property with summarises Waterway fencing, Forestry & Bush areas, Riparian planting, and Stock
- Extensive permissions and user rights
- Large support database
- Covers all regional requirements and is continually updated to cater for changes