Elements and Performance Criteria
- Identify the farm agroecosystem functions at a systems level
- Identify and map energy flows through a farm agroecosystem
- Identify and map nutrient cycles through different parts of a farm ecosystem
- Identify disturbance points in the farm ecosystem succession
- Develop a model of the farm ecosystem and its elements
- Identify areas of complexity and simplicity within the farm ecosystem
- Identify ecosystem functions that can be used to replace the use of external inputs in the farm production systems
- Identify interactions between elements of farm ecosystem
- Assess health of existing farm ecosystems
- Develop plans to enhance farm agroecosystem
- Manage Farm Agroecosystems
- Identify and monitor appropriate parts of the ecosystem
- Set up monitoring system
- Comply with requirements for monitoring determined by organic standards and legislative requirements
- Review measured ecosystem and farm production performance with expected performance and adjust plan in response to differences