The aim of this conference is to focus on farm scale delivery and the current water, environmental and agricultural environmental agenda, how this can be delivered more effectively and knowing what works. Issues that require the effective delivery of farm scale practice will be discussed during this conference: diffuse pollution, nutrients, pesticides, bacterial contamination of rivers, bathing beach failures, organic pollution, siltation of salmonid streams, muddy floods, soil erosion, enhancing the biodiversity of rivers and wetlands.