Integrated Farm Planning Accelerator fund
Application form
Prior to completing this application, please read the IFP Accelerator fund Guideline for applicants
Integrated farm
Integrated farm planning is an approach that brings together dif erent aspects of existing
planning overview
farm or whenua management, planning and reporting responsibilities. This could include,
for example, integrating elements of a business’s farm environment plan, freshwater farm
plan, business plan and health and safety plan among others.
HOW TO APPLY
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Applications should be emailed to [email address] or mailed to MPI’s address below
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Al applications must be received by 5 pm Wednesday 25 May 2022
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If you are making an expression of interest for Phase Two funding, please use the EOI form
1.0 APPLICANT DETAILS
1.1 Name of applicant
TRUST ALLIANCE NZ INCORPORATED
group
1.2 Type of legal entity
Choose a legal
Incorporated Society
(drop-down menu)
entity
1.3 NZBN
9429049549539
1.4 Postal address
Connected Accountants
L1, South British Building, 326 Lambton Quay, Wellington 6142
1.5 Post code
6142
1.6 Region
Wellington
2.0 PRIMARY CONTACT
under the Official Information Act 1982
2.1 Name of contact
Klaeri Schelhowe
person
2.2 Project role
Executive Director
2.3 Organisation
TRUST ALLIANCE NZ INCORPORATED
2.4 Phone number
s 9(2)(a)
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2.5 Email address
s 9(2)(a)
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link to page 2 3.0 PROJECT OVERVIEW
3.1 Project title

(Five words or less)
Digital enablement of data-sharing on-farm

3.2 Project duration
Two years
(Up to four years)
3.3 Project start and
Start date: 15th July 2022
end dates
End date: 31 August 2024
When do you expect to
start and end your
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project?

3.4 Project summary   The problem
Describe the problem,
Farmers and growers are burdened with duplication of effort and high costs for percei
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the level of need and
non-value-added work, such as reporting the same data elements e.g., paddock location,
the aim of the project.
crop data and providing evidence to meet requirements across multiple data silos pre- and
What approach wil  the  post- the farm gate. This inef iciency, data redundancy and unnecessary admin work is a
project take and how
significant obstacle to the effective and efficient preparation and management of Farm
will it deliver the project
aims?
Environment Plans (FEP). Also, and importantly, there is a lack of trust by the farmer in the

security of the data and its use between software platforms and release to third parties
such as regional councils. The issue is shown clearly in this quote from the recently
released TANZ report1

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“Production-wise the xx system does not do staf , it does not do HR, it does not do
livestock, but it is really good at chemicals, xxx is quite good for stock movement and some
H&S, but it's useless at crops and paddock recording, but it won’t talk to xxxx. Nothing
talks to anything else.” Māori agribusiness

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A trusted digital identity provided with a farm enterprise wallet wil  integrate elements of a
farm enterprise’s environment, freshwater, business and health and safety plans across
the software platforms farmers use s 9(2)(b)(ii)
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The digital wallet contains verified information about the farm enterprise from certified
issuers. Users can manage and control their own digital identity without depending on a
service provider or intermediary. In simpler words, you control your own data, and no other
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party can withhold your own data from you.

The level of need - Al  farming enterprises wil  ultimately be providing FEPs (and other
reporting) as part of their legal requirements, licence to operate, market access and
market/consumer requirements.

The extent of the problem and level of need wil  be further informed by the digital Farm
Environment Plan (dFEP) research project being led by TANZ (co-funded by MPI SFF
Released  Futures fund, more detail is in Section 4.4). This is a research project to get feedback from
farmers on challenges in gathering and sharing farm data to meet multiple compliance and
other requirements.

1 Trust Al iance New Zealand STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT: DIGITAL FARM ENVIRONMENT PLANS Draft Report | May 2022
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Aim - To make a dFEP a value-added exercise for farmers through data interoperability
between current software platforms and digital automation. This wil  reduce data entry,
compliance costs, provide trust/evidence, promote better environmental outcomes and
improve efficiency. Importantly, this wil  be achieved with enhanced data sovereignty
under the control of the farm enterprise. The aim is that farmers/growers:
  •  Register once and enter data once
•  Can share, manage and control individual data sets between dif erent software systems
and are also able to share data (as the owner/holder) with other parties without the need
for any 3rd parties mediating the process.
•  Have data self-sovereignty and control
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The approach is to have the farm digital wallet rol ed out to farmers directly. The wallet
can also be distributed as a white-labelled product for use by current farm software
providers s 9(2)(b)(ii)
. This wil  be done by TANZ establishing a
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prototype digital wallet for farm businesses for permissioned sharing of information across
software platforms on-farm (also see Attachment 1). The project wil  provide tools,
protocols and infrastructure to issue, manage decentralised Identifiers and verifiable
credentials by the sector.

TANZ wil  work with collaborators s 9(2)(b)(ii)

to identify cohorts of early adopter farmers/growers. These cohorts s 9(2)(j)

are using a range of on-farm software platforms and TANZ wil  work with
the software platform providers to establish interoperability across platforms. This wil  have
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two components:
  1.  Before the farm-gate - within a farm enterprise the digital wallet wil enable farmer
permissioned sharing across software platforms. For example, the sharing of
geospatial location for identifying farm boundaries and paddock locations so that
this is consistent and avoids duplication.  TANZ will work with the providers of the
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current platforms to agree the technical requirements of the digital wallet and
engage them in the prototype development.  Alternatively, the digital wallet will /
can be implemented directly with farmers as well. Both ways of implementation wil
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be covered.
2.  After farm-gate - the digital wallet wil  be developed and trialled for use with third
parties that need access to dFEP plans/data for regulatory purposes e.g., regional
councils and IVA’s This would maintain the farmer's data sovereignty and
permissioning.
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The outcome is that the farmer wil  be able to manage/share and control individual data
sets on farm and for 3rd parties for dif erent purpose (such as buyers, MPI, MfE, Regional
Councils).
A critical part of the approach is ensuring that the solution used for the digital farm wallet is:
•  Readily scalable - to be able to reach all farmers and other stakeholders/parties
that want to adopt the technology
•  Flexible – to be able to be integrated with wide range of software platforms, and
Released  •  Portable – For example able to be used across industries, sectors and potentially
borders.
•  Based upon recognised global technical standards for easy interoperability.

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link to page 4 This wil  not be a new digital planning tool. Building on a body of work underway with MPI,
TANZ, s 9(2)(b)(ii)  and others in this project wil  enable secure data sharing across
software platforms for dFEP planning. This wil  enable farmers/growers to get ready for
Integrated National Farm Data Platform (INFDP), HWEN and Certified Freshwater Farm
Plan etc. Additionally, it wil  provide the opportunity to use a dFEP for other purpose such
as access to sustainable finance2 and support a volume-to-value strategy.
s 9(2)(j)

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3.5 Project outcomes  Success would be the farm enterprise wallet adopted/embedded and deployed by current
Describe what success  solution providers for up to s 9(2)(j) farmers/growers, who:
will look like and what
•  Register ONCE, get a Digital Identity for the farm enterprise based on the DIA’s
will change/improve as
Service Trust Framework legislation bil .
a result of your project.
•  Capture data ONCE.

•  Successfully using the protype digital wallet to manage on-farm software
interoperability for dFEP’s and reporting time savings, ef iciency and cost savings
•  Successful y provide farm data to 3rd parties off-farm e.g., MfE, Regional Councils
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•  Report a high level of trust in the digital wallet and have the self-sovereignty model
of data management recognised and adopted within the industry.
3.6 Outreach
TANZ wil  work with member organisations to access farmers/growers, specifically:
Identify who you expect  s 9(2)(b)(ii)
to work with on your
project and how you wil
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reach them.
What geographical area
wil  the project focus
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on?
TANZ also has established wider relationships and networks with key stakeholders due to
the dFEP SFF Futures project.  s 9(2)(j)

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2 For example – see reference to potential role of TANZ in “Sustainable Agriculture Finance Initiative, Data Project Findings Paper” Toitū Tahua
– Centre for Sustainable Finance, April 2022
3 Digital Identity Services Trust Framework Bil  - New Zealand Parliament (www.parliament.nz)
4 Draft Long-term Insights Briefing on the future of business for Aotearoa New Zealand | Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
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link to page 5 3.7 Sector
This wil  be further defined in the initial workstream of the project when initial cohorts of
List the sector or
farmers are confirmed (see Section 3.8). Agritech NZ5 has completed analysis of the
sectors of the people
current use of digital tools in the following sectors:
you will be working with.
•  Beef
•  Dairy
•  Sheep & Beef
•  Sheep
3.8 Number of
In a staged process TANZ wil  work with s 9(2)(j)  farmers or growers over two years.
participants
This wil  be done via collaborators who have direct relationships with the farmers/growers.
State how many
The stages are:
farmer/grower

businesses your project
•  Stage 1 - s 9(2)(b)(ii)
has identified s 9(2)(j) early adopter farmers/growers.
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expects to work with.
s 9(2)(b)(ii)
wil  facilitate access to his group and TANZ wil  work with both
the farmer/growers and their on-farm software providers e.g., s 9(2)(b) .
Experience from this group wil  also inform Stage 2.
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  •  Stage 2 – will reach s 9(2)(j)
farmer/growers. This is based on the
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3.9 Reason for
As noted in the previous section these farmers/growers have been identified and chosen
choosing these
as early adopters and are currently using a range of on-farm software platforms. To
participants
implement the digital wallet TANZ prefers to work with the third-party software providers
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State why you have
s 9(2)(b)(ii)
as well as the farmers.
chosen to work with

these particular farmers  Demonstrating the utility of the digital wallet for interoperability for a significant cohort of
and growers.
early adopters and their technology providers wil  provide a strong basis for further
adoption.
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3.10 Collaborations
s 9(2)(b)(ii)
Name the entities (if
the
any) that you wil  be
collaborating with to
deliver this project.
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s 9(2)(b)(ii)
3.11 Measuring
Success measures are outlined below, these wil  be further refined and finalised in
success
Workstream 1.
How will you measure
progress and success?  1.  Most early adopters identified by s 9(2)(j), s 9(2)(b)(ii)
wil  participate in

Year 1. Success on-farm would be measured by:
a.  The farm enterprises using a prototype wallet and a digital identity to share
information across software platforms on farm for development/management
of a dFEP
b.  Data only entered once across the software platform, giving a measurable
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reduction in admin time for the farm enterprise.
c.  The level of trust in the system and reported time savings
d.  Successful engagement by TANZ with the current platform providers for on-
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farm use s 9(2)(b)(ii)

2.  Roll out of a prototype to a group of s 9(2)(j)
farmers/growers by the end of
Year 2 with measures based on a), b), c) above.
3.  The same dFEP data wil  be provided directly by farmers using the digital wallet to
relevant regional councils via INFDP s 9(2)(b)(ii)
to
meet their reporting/audit requirements
4.s 9(2)(j)
5.
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4.0 PROJECT FUNDING
4.1 Estimated total
s 9(2)(j)
project cost and
funding framework
MPI funding
In-kind - contributing
your own resources
Cash - contributing
cash
Other – funding from
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any other sources.

4.2 Budget
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Provide a budget
showing breakdown of
estimated costs.
Add/remove/rename
rows/columns as
needed.
Show non-MPI cash
and/or in-kind only if
applicable.
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4.3 Why is
s 9(2)(j)
government funding
needed?
Describe what support
from the IFP
Accelerator fund will
enable you to do that
you wouldn’t be able to
do otherwise? What
additional outcomes wil
be achieved compared
to what you would
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achieve without MPI
funding?

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4.4 Has funding from
any other government
source been received
or applied for in
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project?
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5.0 PROJECT DELIVERY
5.1 How wil  you go about  The four workstreams and the related activities are detailed below. The timing of
delivering the project?
Workstreams is shown in Attachment 2.
Describe the activities that

wil  be completed during the  Workstream 1 - Finalising requirements, analysis, and design phase
project.
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Explain why you think this
Activities
approach wil  be successful.  The focus is on finalising and roll-out with integrators the existing MVP components

s 9(2)(j)

•  Complete feasibility analysis. This will include identifying, defining and finalising
the requirements to deploy the tools and protocols by TANZ
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•  A stakeholder engagement plan developed and agreed
•  Carry out a benchmark evaluation of possible technical deployment solutions and
additional features such as management, revoke, control of Digital Identity.
Identify the pros and cons and make recommendations on appropriate solutions
and features.
•  Evaluation of development of a farm digital identity decentralised registry
•  Ongoing review over the course of the project

Who - Technical workgroup and international tech stack experts, TANZ engineering
team and potential technology component providers.

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Workstream 2 - Evaluate, develop, adopt phase

Activities
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•  Finalise requirements to deploy the provided tools and protocols by TANZ
•  Engage initial cohort of s 9(2)(j) early adopters and their software providers and
determine their pre-farm gate requirements
•  Work with software providers to agree/develop farm identification, registration and
permissions for digital identity/wallet
•  Field MVP roll out with up to s 9(2)(j) early adopters and evaluate uptake and
acceptance
•  Evaluate and addressing feedback for further roll-out
•  Identify requirements of receiving groups outside the farm gate e.g., regional
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council, INFDP, N-cap reporting tool
•  Field test MVP with receiving groups outside the farm gate

Who – TANZ, s 9(2)(b)(ii)
Tech working group with TANZ members (and non-
TANZ members)

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Workstream 3 - Test and implementation phase

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Activities
•  Contact and engage larger cohort s 9(2)(j) of early adopters for roll out of
MVP/prototype. This will be done by working with s 9(2)(b)(ii)

other TANZ members. TANZ wil  resource this and contract a provider s 9(2)
for communications and provision of a field and cal
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under centre team.
•  Engagement with on-farm software providers for this cohort if the providers were
not involved in Workstream 2.
•  Prepare initial technical education and communication resources for outreach to
farmers and service providers.
•  Agree a plan for roll-out to this cohort by sector and region
•  Start MVP/prototype roll out by the agreed sectors and regions and provide
support to both farmers/growers and software providers.
Released  •  Ongoing evaluation of uptake, feedback and acceptance.
•  Evaluate and addressing feedback for further roll-out

Who – TANZ, s 9(2)(b)(ii)
3rd party solution and integration
service providers (TANZ members and non-TANZ members)
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Workstream 4 - Transformation (to be concurrent with all the above workstreams)

Activities
Awareness, education and change management. This will be done in three stages
with a comprehensive plan that encompasses the following:

•  Preparing for Change
o  Stakeholder assessment
o  Risk assessment
o  Change leadership and governance
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o  Resources to manage the change

•  Managing the Change
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o  Building support and engagement
o  Business readiness assessment
o  Transition plan
o  Communications plan
o  Feedback and assurance plan

•  Sustaining the Change
o  Measuring the change
o  Managing resistance
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o  Evaluation and learning
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Specific activities would include:

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•  Engagement of a Transformation Manager with an appropriate skil  set in
technology and change management to lead the development of a detailed plan
and manage its implementation. They will report via the Project Manager to the
Project Steering Group.
•  A programme of awareness, education and change management will be
under developed aimed at the farmer, on-farm software and integration communities.
This wil  be done by a number of channels/media e.g. Farmers Weekly and using
trusted and existing partners.
•  Engagement with regional farming communities wil  use existing groupings e.g.,
catchment groups, facilitated where possible by sector organisations such as Beef
& Lamb or Dairy NZ.
•  Workshops and training by sector and region as appropriate to inform and
Released  showcase the advantages of a digital wallet for dFEP.
•  Providing a stage to discuss and engage within Data Reference Group and
Geospatial Working Group (both led by s 9(2)(b)(ii) ).
•  Collaboration and active involvement at Data Interoperability Working Group -
cross sector (led by Isaac Trienen, MPI).
•  Engagement with other relevant initiatives who wil  use farm registration service.
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Who TANZ, s 9(2)(b)(ii)

TANZ believes this approach wil  be successful because:
•  Through their membership and other relationships, they have the reach to
connect with a key group of early adopters (both farmers/growers and software
providers and integrators)
•  TANZ recognises that a key challenge is working with farmers/growers to get
an appropriate level of understanding of the technology. TANZ wil  put
significant resource into this both directly and via its members.
•  TANZ is seen as a trusted intermediary organisation with the skil  set and
connections to bring such a project together, without any ulterior commercial
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motives.

5.2 Resources
s 9(2)(j)
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Explain what resources are
needed to deliver the
project and how your
organisation and/or partners
can provide these.
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5.3 Experience
The extension required in this project is to both farmers/growers and on-farm software
Describe your experience in  providers.
delivering extension
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programmes such as this.
•  Extension to farmers/growers will be managed in collaboration with collaborators
who have deep expertise in extension and/or have direct and trusted links to
farmers/growers e.g. s 9(2)(b)(ii)

•  Through its membership and leadership TANZ can work with the on-farm software
providers and has a track record of doing this s 9(2)(b)(ii), s 9(2)(j)


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5.4 Project oversight
Governance
Describe project
management and
A project steering group (PSG) wil  provide project governance. The PSG wil  have a
governance arrangements.  maximum of 5 members comprising two TANZ Board members, one s 9(2)(b)
representative and a farmer/grower representative.
(ii)
TANZ wil  agree the final make-up of the PSG with MPI. The PSG wil  meet no less
that quarterly and wil  approve the annual plan and budget and MPI Milestone reports.
The PSG Chair wil  be Chris Claridge (Chair of TANZ and CEO of Potatoes New
Zealand Inc).
The Project Lead wil  be Klaeri Schelhowe (TANZ Executive Director) who wil  report to
the PSG.
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A suitably qualified and experienced Project Manager wil  be contracted for the
duration of the project and wil  report to the Project Lead.
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6.0 PROJECT RISKS
List the top 5 potential risks and how you wil  mitigate those risks. Describe risks and impacts using IF and THEN
statements.
Project risk
Mitigation
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7.0 HEALTH AND SAFETY RISKS
List the top 5 health and safety risks and how you will mitigate those risks.
Health and safety risk
Mitigation
TANZ wil  be contracting with several entities and/or
Al  contractors work wil  have their own H&S management
individuals for a range of services
and systems in place in accordance with TANZ policies.

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DECLARATION
(Please tick boxes)
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☒ I declare that I am authorised to make this application on behalf of the legal entity identified in it.
☒ I declare that, to the best of my knowledge, the information contained in this application or supplied in support of it is
complete, true and accurate.
☒ I understand that the information contained in this application wil  remain confidential throughout MPI’s assessment
process.
☒ I consent to MPI using the content provided in the application project summary when announcing approved projects,
should the application be approved for funding.
☒ I consent to MPI publicising success stories about the project in the future should the application proceed to a
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contract.
☒ I acknowledge that MPI may be required to share information under the Of icial Information Act (OIA) if requested.
☒ I acknowledge that, if successful in securing a funding contract, the legal entity for this application wil  need to
comply with obligations under the Health and Safety at Work (HSW) Act 2015.

Name:
Klaeri Schelhowe  Official
Title / Position:
Executive Director
Date:
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25.05.22
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Submit ing your application
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•  Applications should be emailed to [email address] or mailed to MPI’s address below
•  Al  applications by email must be received by 5 pm Wednesday 25 May 2022
•  Al  applications by mail must be post marked no later than 5 pm Wednesday 25 May 2022

Hard copy applications can be mailed to: Integrated Farm Planning Accelerator fund
Ministry for Primary Industries
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PO Box 2526
Wellington
At n: Community Funds

If you have any questions or require assistance with your application, please email [email address]
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At achments

Attachment 1
s 9(2)(j)
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Attachment 2 – Indicative workstream timing and relationship to connected projects
Assumes a July 1, 2022, start date and 2-year duration. Actual timing wil  depend on the completion of contracting

Year 1
Year 2
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Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
July - Sept
Oct - Dec
Jan - Mar
Apr - June
July - Sept
Oct - Dec
Jan - Mar
Apr - June
Proposed
W 1 - Finalising requirements,
Focus is in initial 6 months
Carries on to continually review, design, develop more functionalities and features of the technology
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workstreams   analysis, and design
stack/solutions

W 2 - Evaluate, develop, adopt 

Initial cohort of 160 early
Continues to evaluate & develop with initial cohort
adopters.

W 3 - Test and implementation

Larger cohort (1,600+) of early adopters for roll out of prototype

W 4 - Transformation
Initial focus on awareness/education to create
Ongoing awareness/education and change management with farmer, software
urgency and wins.
provider and integration communities.
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Footnotes
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Attachment 3
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