Land & farm hub

We've broken down exactly what the Essential Freshwater rules mean for your farm.
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• Intensive Winter Grazing rules
• Synthetic Nitrogen Fertiliser rules
• Protecting wetlands
• Agricultural intensification rules
• Stock exclusion rules
• Feedlots and stockholding areas rules
• Freshwater Farm Plans
• Fish passage and structures in rivers rules

Leading farmers and land managers employ good farming practice to improve production, performance and sustainable land use.
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• Riparian management
• Dairy effluent
• Irrigation
• Plantation forestry environmental standards
• Requirements for using fresh water
• Land & site works
• Land & farming fact sheets
• Air emissions - spraying, burning & others

Find out about sector-based farm environment plans, and also the range of farm and property plans available from the Taranaki Regional Council.
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• Riparian management plans
• Hill Country Farm Plans
• Hill Country Erosion Funding (STRESS)
• Self-help possum control
• Biodiversity plans
• Landowner funding assistance

The Council works with landholders to restore and enhance native biodiversity, particularly by controlling pests, and with new impetus under Towards Predator-Free Taranaki.
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• TRC Pest Bulletin
• The why & how of pest management
• Pest management - what you need to know
• Freshwater biosecurity
• Biodiversity in Taranaki
• Taranaki Taku Tūranga - Towards Predator-Free Taranaki
• Landowner funding assistance
• Which spurge is which?
• Have you seen a rook?
• Biosecurity research and monitoring

Both exotic and native forest plantation play an important part in soil conservation in the Taranaki region.
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• Plantation forestry environmental standards

Taranaki soils are generally in excellent condition with very few long-term issues.
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• Heavy metal background levels in Taranaki soils