Features

Features

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 freshwater plans for their properties 

Benefits of a Freshwater farm plan

  • 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.
  • Give 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.
FWFP Features

Key Features

The QCONZ Fresh Water Farm Plan 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 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 took as user friendly and fit for purpose as possible.
  • Create new or use any existing maps
  • Extensive map format upload options
  • Ability to show difference map layers
  • Companion mobile app for easier image capture
  • Preloaded regional catchment context, challenges and values (CCCV) information
  • Links to relevant council and catchment websites
  • Integration with surface water quality website – FarmAPT / LAWA test sites
  • Contaminant self-evaluation for sheep and beef
  • Risk finder and risk assessment – based on farming activities
  • Add custom risks
  • Record risks against map items (from list)
  • Soil test checklist
  • Actions against risks (allows one to many relationships)
  • 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)
  • Advisor team insights view for organisations
  • View and print compiled map of farm (all or selective areas)
  • Save report snapshot (with date stamp) in the FWFP
  • Share report (if within 2 weeks of saving/uploading) ??
  • Generate INFDP admin or action report
  • Generate action report (PDF or Excel)
  • Generate risk and action report
  • Export to GEOJSON
  • Ongoing vs improvement actions graph (next 5 years)
  • Certification and audit status
  • Risk review/insights
  • Action review and management
  • Additional insights
  • Waterway fencing
  • Forestry & bush areas
  • Riparian planting
  • Item summary
  • Generate full regulatory report
  • Extensive permissions and user rights options
  • Large and ever-growing support database
  • Covers all regional requirements and is continually updated to cater for changes

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