Improved land and water management practices require a collaborative approach by all parties, North Otago Sustainable Land Management's new co-ordinator Rob McTague believes. When the NOSLaM role arose, Mr McTague saw an opportunity to re-engage that set of skills that he had learnt. The NOSLaM role was not about having someone go and tell farmers what they had to do. ''To get farmer buy-in, the secret will be to seek to understand the land and water management issues being faced by individual farmers and introducing them to the resource most appropriate to them. His vision was to have NOSLaM recognised as the region's leading provider of best practice land and water management support and education.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 30, 2017 18:11 UTC