Knowing how much water you need or could store coming into a dry season is a necessity in farm planning.

The On-Farm Water Management project aimed to increase preparation through development of on-farm water management plans (FWMPs).

A FWMP determines water needs (stock and domestic) and the capacity to meet these needs (dam, tank, bore). Landholders and farm managers can then implement proven on-farm actions to ensure they have adequate water in the right places across the farm (via storage and reticulation). By managing water, dry weather impacts on livestock, productive pastures, soil, and natural assets, will be minimised, and production, both during and recovery after droughts will be improved.

A series of workshops and events was held in our region to assist with the development of FWMPs and assistance was offered to landholders at 1:1 follow-up sessions to finalise their plans.