The Otago Regional Council is hosting free intensive winter grazing (IWG) workshops to help with all things related to intensive winter grazing.

Our compliance and catchment advisor teams are hosting free intensive winter grazing workshops across Otago where you can come along and get the latest IWG information, including help on management plans for winter 2026.

There are six in-person, face-to-face workshops. You only need to attend one. All in-person workshops have finished for 2026.

There is one online workshop available on 4 May.

An online workshop was held on Tuesday, 3 March 7pm. You can watch the recording below.

For the in-person workshops, you need to register your attendance to an IWG workshop. 

The online workshop will be held on Monday, 4 May at 11am. The catchments, consents and compliance teams will be online to present and answer any questions you may have.

The online workshop consists of:

• A short presentation covering:
  • The latest IWG research findings
  • Current legislation regarding IWG (what has changed)
  • IWG Management Plan overview
  • Risk identification in IWG paddocks
  • Overview and selection of IWG good management practices.
• A Q&A session
  
  

Online workshop details for Monday, 4 May, 11am:

MS Teams link: orc.govt.nz/iwgonline 

Optional (if the link above does not work for you; this is for manually finding the meeting)

MS Teams Meeting ID: 492 104 371 728 93 

Passcode: hH2CL7Qa

Add to your calendar:
Download/add a reminder to your online calendar for Monday, 4 May, 11am

Each workshop consisted of:

• A short presentation covering:
  • The latest IWG research findings
  • Current legislation regarding IWG (what has changed)
  • IWG Management Plan overview
  • Risk identification in IWG paddocks
  • Overview and selection of IWG good management practices.
• A Q&A session
• An opportunity to get assistance from ORC staff to complete or update your IWG Management Plan.

We recommended that you brought the following to an IWG workshop:

1. Your existing IWG management plan
2. Whole farm map(s)
3. Aerial imagery of your IWG paddocks for winter 2026.