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LEAF Sustainable Farming Review

The LEAF Sustainable Farming Review is a members only self-assessment on-line management tool to help farmers farm more sustainably. It enables them to monitor their performance, identify strengths and weaknesses and set targets for improvement across the whole farm.

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What does the LEAF Sustainable Farming Review cover?

The LEAF Sustainable Farming Review covers the 9 sections of Integrated Farm Management (IFM):

  • Organisation and Planning
  • Soil Management and Fertility
  • Crop Health and Protection
  • Pollution Control and By-Product Management
  • Animal Husbandry
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Water Management
  • Landscape and Nature Conservation
  • Community Engagement

Why should I complete the LEAF Sustainable Farming Review?

The LEAF Sustainable Farming Review helps farmers to record, evaluate and improve farming practices by allowing them to ‘step back’ from everyday farming practices, take an objective look at what they are doing and the reasons why. It will help to:

  • Support your implementation of Integrated Farm Management
  • Demonstrate performance annually and over time
  • Benchmark performance against other users
  • Keep ahead of legislative requirements
  • Demonstrate commitment to sustainable farming
  • Support continuous improvement

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Users of the LEAF Sustainable Farming Review

Features of the LEAF Sustainable Farming Review

  • Guidance – links and documents to help you explore in more detail.
  • Action Plan – this provides a summary of all the actions identified in each of the 9 sections.
  • Benchmark – this helps farmers monitor their performance and progress against other Review users.
  • Continuous Professional Development – The LEAF Sustainable Farming Review qualifies for three types of CPD points - BASIS, NRoSO and DairyPro.
  • Management Reports – various reports are available to download to show responses and progress.
  • LEAF Marque – completion of the LEAF Sustainable Farming Review is a pre-requisite for LEAF Marque certification.

Prac­ti­cal, easy to use man­age­ment tool for farmers

Ques­tions with­in each of the nine sec­tions reflect a par­tic­u­lar IFM prin­ci­ple and togeth­er cov­er eco­nom­ic per­for­mance, envi­ron­men­tal qual­i­ty and social health. Man­age­ment reports are also pro­vid­ed to allow farm­ers to doc­u­ment, eval­u­ate and map out improve­ments over time as well as high­light areas to focus on in the future. 

The LEAF Sus­tain­able Farm­ing Review replaces the LEAF Audit and has been devel­oped in close con­sul­ta­tion with farm­ers. It offers a very prac­ti­cal, easy to use man­age­ment tool to help farm­ers make more informed deci­sions that will dri­ve their busi­ness for­ward – eco­nom­i­cal­ly, envi­ron­men­tal­ly and socially. 

The LEAF Sus­tain­able Farm­ing Review is avail­able to LEAF mem­bers through MyLEAF.

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