Our strategy
Our strategy is sharply focussed on what matters most to dairy farmers.
Help shape where DairyNZ focuses effort and levy investment
Over recent years, you’ve invested significant time sharing your views with DairyNZ on what’s important to you. Those conversations have helped shape our thinking about future priorities.
DairyNZ is reviewing where to focus effort and levy investment over the next 5 years, to ensure that our strategic focus has the most impact for farmers.
The choices made now will influence where DairyNZ works with you and invests on your behalf to deliver the greatest value for the sector and for your farm business.
Tell us what matters most to help shape our future focus
Click the button below and complete the short online form. It only takes a few minutes, and your input, alongside other evidence and perspectives, will help inform the decisions made by the Board about where DairyNZ invests your levy over the next 5 years.
The survey will close on 15 November 2026. We will update you in early 2027 on the key themes you identify and how they have helped shape DairyNZ's future focus.
Our vision
Our vision is to ensure the levy is the best investment of every New Zealand dairy farmer, and our strategy is sharply focus on what matters most to farmers:
- Drive productivity – Lock in as the world’s most productive dairy farmers.
- Strengthen farm systems – Future-proof the way we farm.
- Compete on sustainability – Embrace responsible dairy as a competitive advantage.
Key components of our strategy
We apply our strong engine of dairy science to help provide farmers with tools and resources that drive productivity, strengthen farming systems and compete on sustainability.
We push for sensible, science-based regulations that balance economic, social and environmental outcomes within our communities. We use science and data to bring balance, facts and workable solutions to public understanding to protect social licence for the sector.
Partnerships and collaborations are central to the way we work. While nobody can match the strength of our farm systems science, we know that by working with others we can accelerate and expand our positive impact and influence to benefit more farmers, faster.
Our farmers’ money is invested wisely to prepare the sector for the opportunities and challenges of tomorrow while ensuring we keep pace with the world’s most competitive dairy farmers today.
