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Ems For Your Farm BusinessEMS is short for Environmental Management System and is a term of increasing importance and interest to farmers. By Department of Primary Industries - 12th July 2006 - Back to News The Department of Primary Industries in partnership with the Victorian Farmers Federation through the EMS Pathways Project, is keen to both widen the awareness of EMS and to support the development of an EMS on Victorian farms.
An EMS is a way for farmers to match their production aims with their care for natural resources – the land, air and water.
While the focus of an EMS is on the environmental impact from farming activities, it is often very difficult to separate these issues from productivity aims. What farmers often realise therefore is - what’s good for the environment will almost certainly be good for the future of the farm business.
EMS benchmarking tools such as EBMP - Environmental Best Management Practice and DairySAT - Dairy Self Assessment Tool - are designed to help farmers identify risks and impacts that their farming activities might be having on the environment.
EMS Pathways Officers can provide farmers with assistance to incorporate EMS processes into their business as well as by providing links to aerial imagery and incentive programs to follow up priorities identified in the self-assessment process.
For more information contact Don Shaw on 5159 5136 for the East Gippsland Catchment, Joan Wallis on 5662 9916 for the West Gippsland Catchment or Carmen Zerafa on 5367 2922 for Port Phillip and Westernport.
Source: http://gippsland.com/ Published by: news@gippsland.com
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