Why Join DairyBase?

With DairyBase you can:

• Better understand your farm's performance
• Identify opportunities to drive profit
• Make confident and effective decisions
• Track progress towards long and short-term goals
• Draw comparisons against other farms
• Keep a tight rein on farm working expenses.

DairyBase offers two types of benchmarking – the business's financial performance and the farm’s physical aspects – and compares them to industry standards or targets.

Both set out farm information in a standard way to make comparisons easy. To get the most out of benchmarking use the financial and the physical reports together.

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

The process for using DairyBase

1. Register the farm business:
   At this point, permission can be given for an accountant or rural professional to access reports.
2. Complete farm business description questionnaire (L1):
   This is filled in every season.
3. Analyse the farm business:
   Financial and/or physical detail (L2) and/or environmental information (L3) is collected and analysed. The DairyBase Support Centre or your rural professional will assist with this step.
4. Discuss reports:
   A chance for farmers to identify opportunities with their rural professional.

Adding value with DairyBase

See DairyBase data at work in DairyNZ's Econ Tracker tool and watch the video below to see how Markus Woutersen uses DairyBase to improve his business.