We’ve collected in-depth budgets from a number of top performing farms with a focus on low ‘per unit’ cost of production to help you identify opportunities.
Improvements include:
- More detailed descriptions of income and cost categories
- 50:50 sharemilkers added
- Farms from last year now have an actual v budget summary for 2016/17
- Audio clips - hear farmer responses to increased forecast milk price
- Videos - farmers share more of their story in a series of video clips
Case study farms with updated budgets:
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Northland
395 cows: 160 ha: Owner operator: System 2: OAD
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North Waikato
465 cows: 170 ha: 50:50 sharemilker: System 2
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South West Waikato
490 cows: 175 ha: Owner operator: System 2
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Bay of Plenty
320 cows: 120 ha: Owner operator: System 2
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Taranaki
440 cows: 168 ha: Owner operator: System 1: Organic conversion
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Canterbury
520 cows: 157 ha: 50:50 sharemilker: System 2/3
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Canterbury
2060 cows: 587ha: Owner operator: System 3
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Canterbury
1340 cows: 335 ha: Owner operator: System 4
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West Coast
360 cows: 180 ha: 50:50 sharemilker: System 2
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Southland
1020 cows: 310 ha: 50:50 sharemilker: System 4
Updated budgets coming soon for these farms:
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Northland
730 cows: 231 ha: Owner operator: System 3
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Waikato
288 cows: 98 ha: 50:50 sharemilker: System 2
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South Waikato
1040 cows: 255 ha: Owner operator: System 5
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Bay of Plenty
260 cows: 83 ha: Owner operator: System 2
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Taranaki
202 cows: 73 ha: Owner operator: System 2/3
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Lower North Island
520 cows: 165 ha: 50:50 sharemilker: System 2/3
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Lower North Island
460 cows: 170 ha: Owner operator: System 3
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Southland
560 cows: 190 ha: Owner operator: System 3: Low crop
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Southland
670 Cows: 218 ha: Owner Operator: Syndicate: System 4:
