What's NZFAP+ Actually Worth to Your Bottom Line?
On our clients' kill sheets certification is worth 20c/kg carcass weight — 10c for NZFAP, 10c for NZFAP+. The maths, and the caveats that actually matter.
Farm Plans & Mapping Solutions
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Who We Are
Superior Mapping, for Clear Communication.
We come from farming, so we know what works on the ground. Maplands delivers high-quality farm-scale maps, certified farm plans, drone mapping and on-farm communication tools across New Zealand — Farm Assurance Programmes, regulatory compliance and nutrient management included.
Better maps, faster, that look better — we handle the technical, so you can focus on farming.
Base NZFAP and NZFAP+ (Silver & Gold)
Certified Nutrient Management Advisor
High-quality drone aerial imagery
What We Do
Our Services
Practical, high-quality mapping and farm planning solutions for New Zealand farmers
High-resolution drone imagery and photogrammetry terrain modelling for farm planning, waterway mapping, compliance — or just a damn fine map on your wall.
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Base NZFAP and NZFAP+ (Silver & Gold) farm plans — the full built report, maps and a tailored environmental plan, done with you.
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Certified, audit-ready freshwater farm plans built on real farm-scale mapping — for Horizons, Waikato and Greater Wellington farmers.
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Farm-scale Land Use Capability (LUC), Land Resource Inventory (LRI) and soil mapping — at the right intensity for your farm or orchard plan.
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Certified, Overseer-based nutrient management plans for NZ farms — soil tests turned into a paddock-by-paddock fertiliser plan that keeps you compliant.
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Clean, accurate farm maps for NZ farms — printed wall maps and write-on whiteboard paddock maps, built with you in a planning session.
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Maps You Can Hold
Whiteboards, tear-off pads and boards — all made from your farm's real map, built for the office wall, the woolshed and the ute
Write-on Whiteboard Paddock Map
Your farm as a wipe-clean whiteboard — plan grazing, spray and mating straight on the map, wipe it off and go again next round.
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Maplands Pads
Tear-off paper pads where every sheet is your farm's paddock map — scribble the plan, hand it over, tear off a fresh one next time.
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Health & Safety Farm Map Board
Your farm's hazards, no-go zones and assembly points on one printed board — the map you point contractors and visitors at before they head out.
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Your farm's actual hills and gullies, 3D-printed solid from real LiDAR terrain data — a farm you can hold, coming soon.
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One Job, Sorted End to End
Our services and products bundled around the jobs farms actually need done — from a map on the wall to a full compliance-ready farm plan
Farm Map Essentials
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The first proper map of the place — a write-on whiteboard map of the whole operation, built with you and put on your wall.
For farms running off a mental map and a few scribbled paddock names, ready for the first proper map of the place.
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1 service + 1 product
Farm Plan Package
THE FULL JOB
Field-verified LUC and soil mapping, an NZFAP+ farm plan built on that foundation, and the whiteboard map and tear-off pads that put it to work every day.
For farmers heading for NZFAP+ — Silver or Gold — who want the plan, the land mapping behind it and the everyday farm maps done as one job.
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2 services + 2 products
Compliance & Safety
AUDIT-READY
The audit-ready bundle — a full NZFAP+ farm plan for the auditor, a health and safety hazard board on the wall for the team, contractors and visitors, and a write-on paddock map for the day-to-day.
For farms heading into NZFAP+ certification or an audit that want the plan done properly and the safety side visible on the wall, not buried in a drawer.
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1 service + 2 products
Our Difference
Why Choose Maplands?
Farmers First
We're farmers ourselves — we develop plans that work for you and your farm, not just for regulators.
Fully Certified
NZFAP+ certified, certified freshwater farm plan provider, and Certified Nutrient Management Advisor.
High-Quality Maps
Our maps are built to be genuinely useful beyond their regulatory purpose — accurate, clear, and farm-scale.
Fast Turnaround
We work efficiently to deliver your plans and maps quickly, without compromising on quality.
Need a Farm Plan or Mapping Solution?
Talk to us about your farm. We handle the technical so you can focus on farming. Fast turnaround, high-quality maps, and practical plans built for New Zealand conditions.
From the field
Insights
Practical notes on farm mapping, soils and compliance — no fluff.
When Certification Doesn't Stack Up
We sell farm plans, so you'd expect us to say every farm needs one. They don't. The NZ farms where NZFAP+ certification doesn't pay — told straight.
Seeing the Ground, Not the Grass: Why We Fly LiDAR
A drone photo measures the grass; LiDAR measures the ground beneath it. On NZ hill country that decides whether your slope, water and LUC class are right.
Know Your Land, Lift Your Margin
Say 'LUC' and most NZ farmers think environmental paperwork. Land Use Capability was built to answer a profit question — what will this land actually repay?
Why Farm-Scale LUC Is the Best Base for a Farm Plan
A farm plan is only as good as the map under it. Why a field-verified, farm-scale Land Use Capability (LUC) base beats the minimum NZFAP+ asks for.
