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Serve-Ag's Sustainable Agricultural Services Group has a broad range of skills and experience to assist farmers throughout Tasmania manage their natural and human resources to enhance the long term productivity, profitability and sustainability of their farm businesses.
Our key strengths are in the areas of managing soil health to underpin profitable and sustainable farming systems; and building the capacity of land managers to better manage their enterprises. Over the past five years alone we have worked with over 200 farmers across 22 grower groups (see map, right) as well as numerous one-on-one consultancies.
We use a ‘Plan – Do – Check - Review’ approach when dealing with farmers, assisting them identify topics of interest and issues most relevant to them and then take action through facilitated on-ground activities such as workshops, training sessions, trials and monitoring.
This approach is effective as it allows our clients to identify the issues which affect them regionally and locally, and then be involved in planning and undertaking actions to address the issues on their own farms. Follow-up monitoring and evaluation is carried out to see what worked and why, and so that future actions can be modified to be even more effective. Both environmental and economic needs are addressed to ensure the outcomes are truly “sustainable”.
Our Sustainable Ag Services staff assist participants through all stages of this process by tailoring activities to meet local and individual needs; facilitating group meetings; coordinating local trials and monitoring; and bringing in experts in particular fields to provide new knowledge and expertise. Sharing the information with other groups also increases the learning capacity of each group, and promotes interest in and understanding of areas that may not have been considered previously.
We work closely with clients in all regions of the state and are happy to assist individuals or groups of land holders to plan and undertake on-ground actions to improve their long term productivity, profitability and sustainability.
Give us a call any time to discuss how we can help you and your business.
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