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Advisor and Consultant Water Quality Resources

This page supports farm advisors and agricultural consultants who deliver farmer water quality training. It brings together the slides, handouts and booklets from the advisor training with videos, guides, maps and tools that you can use to prepare for, and deliver, the farmer course. Many of these resources are also linked in the advisor participant booklet.

The resources are organised around the eight actions of the Better Farming for Water framework, which links nutrient management, farmyard management and land management.


Advisor training materials

Slides

DAFM Introduction (PDF)
Ted Massey, DAFM

Why water matters (PPT)
Eoin McAleer, EPA

Diffuse loss, pathways and CSAs
Peter Mitchell/ Dermott Leahy, RBMS

EPA maps- Assessing and interpreting water-quality information
Eoin McAleer, EPA

Pre-visit desk assessment (PPT)
Noel Meehan Teagasc

Better Farming for Water: the eight actions

The Better Farming for Water framework links nutrient, farmyard and land management. The eight actions provide a consistent framework for explaining advice to farmers throughout the advisor and farmer training.


Training videos

Teagasc and partner videos to use when preparing for, or delivering, the farmer course. Videos open on YouTube unless stated.

Water quality, monitoring and farmer experience

Maps, NMP Online and runoff risk

Farmyards, roads and storage

Nutrients, soil and grassland

Tillage, cover crops and catch crops

Riparian margins, buffers and drainage

Pesticides and water quality


Guides, factsheets and reports

Teagasc

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

River Basin Management Service (RBMS)

Waters of LIFE

Maps and tools

  • NMP Online – Teagasc online nutrient management planning system
  • EPA Water Maps – waterbody status, monitoring information and pressures
  • EPA Agriculture Maps – includes FLAG (Farm and Landscape Measures for Agriculture) maps
  • AgNav – tool and guidance for comparing feasible changes in nutrient balance

Farm safety resources