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Featured apps

Useful apps for the season ahead

Use our feed budgets, Workplace 360 and other apps to guide decisions over the coming days, weeks and months.

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Ranking of Active Sires

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Bull Search

Search for an individual bull or set criteria to produce a list of bulls to suit your requirements.

Tools & Apps

Breeding decisions

Annual performance review

Template for annual performance reivews.

Resources

Performance management

Feed budgets

Choose from a one-page Simple Feed Budget Calculator, Simple Feed Budget with Body Condition Score (BCS) Calculator, the Monthly Feed Budget, or Annual Feed Budget.

Tools & Apps

Feed budgets

DairyNZ Econ Tracker tool

The DairyNZ Econ Tracker is an online tool that brings you economic information relevant to the New Zealand dairy sector right now.

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Planning

DairyBase login

Login to your DairyBase account and access all the information you need to make confident and effective farm management decisions.

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Business

Annual Leave Calculator

Use this calculator to work out annual leave entitlement for your employees.

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People

Supplement Price Calculator

The supplementary feed price calculator allows you to determine how much you can pay for supplementary feed.

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Feed

Annual cash budget example

An annual cash budget details cash received and cash expenses going out. It indicates if the business is sustainable and estimates any cash surplus or deficit for the season.

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Budgets

Feed budgets

Choose from a one-page Simple Feed Budget Calculator, Simple Feed Budget with Body Condition Score (BCS) Calculator, the Monthly Feed Budget, or Annual Feed Budget.

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Feed budgets

FeedChecker calculator

The FeedChecker calculator is a robust way to ensure you are optimising feed allocation throughout the year.

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Nutrition

Animal Herd Averages

Breeding Worth (BW), Production Worth (PW) and trait Breeding Values are available to help farmers make breeding, culling and purchasing decisions.

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Breeding decisions

Healthy Hoof app

The Healthy Hoof app has been discontinued and is now unavailable for use. Visit the page for alternative solutions.

Tools & Apps

Lameness

Job Competitiveness Calculator

To help employers create competitive farm assistant job offers, DairyNZ has created a 'Job Competitiveness Calculator'.

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Business

Lameness Calculator

Use this tool to calculate the impact of lameness on the farm business bottom line and to show the origin of these costs.

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Lameness

Annual Leave Calculator

Use this calculator to work out annual leave entitlement for your employees.

Tools & Apps

People

DairyBase login

Login to your DairyBase account and access all the information you need to make confident and effective farm management decisions.

Tools & Apps

Business

Catch crops gross margin calculator

This is a financial tool. It estimates the relative profitability of different catch crop options.

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Budgets

Mastitis Investigation Kit

The SmartSAMM Mastitis Investigation Kit (the Kit) provides a resource that professional advisors can use to gather information during a full mastitis investigation.

Tools & Apps

Mastitis

MilkSmart app

Easily assess your milking performance, find out how much time you already spend on milking, and how much you can save.

Tools & Apps

Milking

Monthly cashflow budget Fonterra

A monthly cashflow budget takes your annual cash budget and spreads your income and expenses across the year giving you a month-by-month basis picture of expected income and what you can anticipate spending.

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Budgets

OAD Decision Matrix

Before changing your farm system it’s important to assess the potential benefits (if any) and whether it fits with your future aspirations and goals.

Tools & Apps

Milking

Milk on dry off

The milk on/dry off tool is designed to help test scenarios and make informed decisions around the cost of continuing to milk all or part of the herd into late lactation under a feed shortage situation.

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Feed

Off-paddock investment calculator

Crunching the numbers before spending money is critical. Use the Investment Calculator to work out what it might cost and what your return could be.

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Infrastructure

Partial budget

A partial budget is often used to evaluate ideas and undertake sensitivity analyses. Once you've completed a partial budget, complete further analysis such as annual budgets and cashflows.

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Budgets

Pasture Growth Forecaster

The Pasture Growth Forecaster has been further developed commercially and is now Pasture Vibe. The new name reflects the purpose of the tool in helping farmers get in sync with their pastures.

Tools & Apps

Feed

Pasture and Crop Eaten Calculator

Calculating your pasture and crop eaten figure. This 5-step assessment allows you to calculate this figure for your chosen season.

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Feed

Mastitis performance calculator

This Calculator estimates the potential economic benefits of 'closing the gap' between your herd's actual performance and your target performance, for udder health and milk quality.

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Mastitis

Personal cash budget

A personal cash budget is for anyone who wants to know where their money is going. It is particularly useful for farmers on a wage or salary.

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Budgets

Heifer Development Plan

Growing heifers well, so that they meet their liveweight targets, can improve farm productivity and profitability. Use this tool to set a plan for the first two years of a heifer's life.

Tools & Apps

Heifers

Contract milking premium calculator

The Contract Milker Premium Calculator compares the profitability of contract milking with managing a farm. 

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Business

Breakeven milk price

Breakeven milk price (BEMP) is the milk income per kilogram of milksolids required to cover all costs or outgoings.

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Budgets