Developing and following action plans that make sense for individual operations can help pork producers in their environmental management efforts. Action plans provide guidance for daily operations and help a producer immediately and effectively respond to emergency situations that might arise.

Keeping good records provides information a producer can review with an eye towards improving environmental management and production systems on their operations. Good records can also prove useful in documenting the steps taken to employ good environmental management practices and respond to questions raised by regulatory agencies and neighbors if that should become necessary.