THE BUSINESS
AK Consultants, formerly Armstrong Agricultural Services has been operating since 1987. The main clients are farmers, Regional NRM Groups, corporate clients and Government Agencies. Staff at AK Consultants are committed to providing the highest standard in agricultural and land & water management consultants in Tasmania.
In the last decade there has been a gradual shift in the services the firm provides, consistent with the national trend in the agricultural consulting profession. Initial emphasis was in farm business management and rural land-use management. While this still forms a large portion of the services which AK Consultants provides there is now a greater environmental component to the services with specific emphasis on environmental planning.
AK Consultants is a family friendly business and encourages flexible working arrangements with five employees; each employee brings unique skills to the firm. While each one of the employees provides expertise in particular fields there is also a high degree of team work and the firm often teams up with other consultancy businesses to be able to contribute to the skill mix required to deliver larger projects.
AK Consultants employees operate within a policy framework as specified in the Code of Ethics for the Australian Association of Agricultural Consultants of which David Armstrong and Astrid Ketelaar are members and Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand, of which Astrid Ketelaar is a member (see AIAST & EIANZ Code of Ethics).
Our Expertise includes:
- Agricultural business management;
- Agricultural and environmental assessments and plans;
- Soil and land capability;
- Natural resource management planning;
- Water management planning;
- Financial management for farming and other businesses;
- Mapping;
- Facilitation & Negotiation;
- Farm water development planning;
- Property management planning;
- Dam assessments and water licence applications;
- Dairy effluent management;
- Giant freshwater lobster and burrowing crayfish assessments;
- Giant freshwater lobster capture and relocation;
- Effluent Reuse Schemes;
- Salinity risk assessment and management.