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Improving the environment and supplying Enviromeat

Training will be offered in Traralgon during May for beef and lamb producers interested in becoming eligible to supply Enviromeat and any farmers wishing to improve their current management of the environment.

By Department of Primary Industries - 20th April 2006 - Back to News

The three-day training program assists participants in developing an environmental management system (EMS) for their business. This includes assessing the impacts their business could potentially have on the environment, prioritising where their efforts are best put, detailing the plans of action and how to monitor progress. Developing an EMS alerts producers to areas where they can improve the environment such as protecting remnant vegetation, stopping soil degradation, and improving water quality.

Enviromeat is the marketing brand for eligible producers from the Gippsland Beef and Lamb EMS Pilot project, who have trialed the product at both the Churchill Island Farmers Market in the summer of 2004-05, and currently in Melbourne retail outlets. This training program is another opportunity for interested producers to fulfil the ISO 14001 compliant EMS criteria to become an Enviromeat supplier. Other criteria around catchment health and meat quality also apply.

Sixty producers from throughout Gippsland were involved in the Gippsland Beef and Lamb EMS project over the past three years. This training is being offered in collaboration with the GippsLandcare Smarter Planning, Smarter Action project. The training provides a systematic framework for farmers to improve the natural resources on farm, reinforcing the work being done through Landcare.

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