Irricon Resource Solutions

Selling, succession planning, refinancing or changing land-use?

Don’t wait until a major property decision is on your doorstep. Understanding your property’s environmental and regulatory position early gives you more time and more options.

Our Strategic Property Review can identify compliance gaps, future risks and opportunities, giving you time to address issues, avoid surprises and move forward with confidence.

Ideally, start at least 12 months before the decision.

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A cracker day to be out and about in Fairlie!☀

Haidee has been making the most of the sunshine while reviewing domestic water consents and exploring future options for one of our clients. More to come!

Buying a farm? Before you commit, there are a few key questions you should be asking.

✅ Are the right consents and approvals in place for the property?
✅ Does the current or intended land use fit within the rules?
✅ Are there any outstanding compliance issues or risks?
✅ What obligations, constraints or opportunities come with the property and could they affect your plans?

Environmental Due Diligence helps you understand the property’s environmental and regulatory position, identify potential red flags and ask the right questions before signing on the dotted line.

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There’s some great work happening to support water quality in the Ahuriri catchment.

Bridget and Inez recently attended an Ahuriri Catchment Community Group meeting to hear Environment Canterbury present its latest water-quality results and compliance expectations.

Bridget is the group’s Catchment Project Manager and works alongside farmers, rūnaka, Environment Canterbury and the wider community to support practical action across the catchment.

Over the past year, ACCG members have had some great wins!

🌿 Five kilometres of fencing to protect 17 hectares of wetlands and critical habitats
🌱 More than 4,000 plants purchased for riparian planting
🗺️ Wetland mapping and restoration planning
🌾 Catch-cropping trials exploring ways to reduce nitrogen losses after winter grazing
💧 Ongoing water-quality monitoring

This work is even more important following a wetter-than-average October to January and more frequent high flows in the Ahuriri River. These conditions can influence how and when nutrients move through the catchment, which reinforces the value of monitoring, collaboration and practical action on the ground.

Bridget and Inez are proud to be a part of such a meaningful long-term, collective effort.

Photo credit: EOS Ecology

Here’s a blast from the past! And he’s still going strong, bringing more than 45 years of experience across surveying, farming and the dairy industry to our team and our clients. Cheers to you, Malcom!

Malcolm Read

Technical consent applications, practical environmental solutions and a lunchtime walk with Tilly Spaniel make up a fairly typical day for Irricon Principal Environmental Consultant Sarah Rickard.

Sarah’s expertise is in water, and she’s been our ‘go to’ since 2015. Her master’s research explored macroinvertebrate communities across arable, dairy, and sheep and beef waterways, which laid the foundation for a career specialising in environmental and water-related work.

Today, she handles complex technical queries, supports the wider Irricon team (Thank you, Sarah!❤) and progresses consent applications for her own clients.

Sarah loves getting novel consents across the line and finding practical solutions that work for clients as well as delivering better environmental outcomes. She also recently attended the Environment Court for the first time, adding another string to her already impressive consenting bow!

Based outside Darfield, Sarah has recently started trail running and is training for Race Tekapo this month. She also coaches her daughter’s netball team, manages her son’s tennis team and enjoys tramping, skiing, gardening - and let’s not forget, walking Tilly.🐾

Feels like spring! 🌷

Neal Wallace from Farmers Weekly NZ recently highlighted the growing number of younger farmers looking at farm ownership, alongside an estimated $150b intergenerational transfer of rural wealth expected over the next decade.

It’s another reminder about the importance of being proactive about succession.

Understanding your property’s environmental and regulatory position early can help you identify anything that could affect its future value, financing, ownership structure or options for the next generation.

That’s where a Strategic Property Review can help.

Ideally completed well in advance of major property decisions, it gives you time to understand any compliance gaps, future risks or opportunities. You can then work through them without any extra pressure.

If succession is somewhere on the horizon, getting a clear picture of the property itself is a useful place to start.

Market forces nudge succession trends Larger numbers of young farmers are following their commercial instincts into farm ownership, writes Neal Wallace.

Big changes are coming for resource management and local government, with potential implications for farmers and rural communities.

The Irricon team attended an Institute of Rural Professionals networking breakfast this morning to hear from Timaru District Mayor Nigel Bowen and Councillor Michelle Pye about the proposed reforms, likely timeframes and what the changes could mean on the ground.

There is still plenty of detail to work through, but staying close to these conversations helps us keep our clients informed and support them as the new rules take shape.