NZPI Conference Keynote Speaker
Antony is a Canterbury University Chemical and Process Engineer with 13 years experience in the international pulp and paper industry working across New Zealand, Malaysia and Canada, now currently 15 years working for Fonterra as Energy and Climate Manager. His areas of expertise are decarbonisation of process industries, energy efficiency, as well as a government regulation of energy supply and emissions trading. Antony currently sits on the Major Electricity Users Group and the Major Gas Users Group, Electricity Authority Market Development Advisor Group, as well as Chair of the Bioenergy Association of New Zealand.
Presenting with Kate Heffey:
Farm Planning has long been used to manage and mitigate environmental risk. Fonterra has been developing farm plans since 2012, initially using a geospatial digital tool to map waterways on farm. This quickly expanded to a range of other focus areas including riparian management and defining farm management blocks. Over time the tool has become more comprehensive, as the plans evolved from demonstration of meeting standards to a farmer led risk identification and management, and decision support tool.
Today, the Tiaki tool is used to create Farm Environment Plans developed from numerous layers of spatially mapped data producing a digital map of the farm and its key risk features. This, combined with specialised one-on-one support from our team of Sustainable Dairying Advisors, produces a risk assessment that sits alongside farmer agreed actions to manage and mitigate those risks to the environment in alignment with good farming practices.
One of the challenges the industry is faced with now is how to keep plans relevant and fit for purpose as the focus shifts to wider than freshwater outcomes. Fonterra is looking to address this and support our farmers to be resilient through change through our Tiaki tool and an integrated planning approach.
