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Reduce your risk of BVD

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Our purpose

Learn more about DairyNZ’s purpose, and what progressing a positive future for New Zealand dairy farming means to us.

What's new

New Talking Dairy episode

Homegrown advantage

Can your farm be both highly profitable and low in emissions intensity? New research from nearly 8,000 farms reveals how top-performing NZ dairy farms are achieving both and offer practical insights on how to achieve this on your farm.

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Spring Smarts

Head into spring with confidence

We've gathered our key spring tools and resources into one handy place to support you with a successful season.

Browse here

RAS list update

July update now live

Discover NZ's top proven bulls on the latest Ranking of Active Sires (RAS) list update - helping you breed more productive and efficient cows.

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August-October 2025

New Inside Dairy out now

This edition focuses on optimisation – with practical, people-focused ideas to boost on-farm productivity and sustainability.

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Inside Dairy - Low-footprint feed holds the key

Inside Dairy

4 min. read

7 Aug 2025

DairyNZ thanks farm staff powering research success

Media releases

2 min. read

6 Aug 2025

Upcoming events

Collaborative research efforts to quantify methane emissions

To support farmers in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we’ve teamed up with Irish researchers to quantify methane emissions from dairy cows in pasture-based systems. This collaborative research programme delves into the complexities of methane emissions from grazing cows, aiming to develop more precise emission factors and mitigation strategies for our unique pasture-based systems.

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About us

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Years of science

We’re proud to be working alongside farmers to provide science solutions to farming challenges for more than 15 years.

+ $67m

Invested

In 2022/23 DairyNZ invested $67.25m into programmes and projects that support profitable and sustainable dairy farming, and continue to progress the positive future of our sector.

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Tools and resources

We have a breadth of useful tools and resources available to help farmers run their business throughout the seasons. They are tried and tested and have been developed using the latest science and research.

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Research partners

Working together with others in the sector is an important part of how we collaborate to solve the longer-term challenges.