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The latest Inside Dairy is now online, with news, farmer-led solutions, and science-backed tools.

20 Oct 2025

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Featured apps

RAS List - October bull data now live

Discover NZ's top proven bulls in the October Ranking of Active Sires (RAS) list update

Ranking of Active Sires

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Bull Search

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Bull Search

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

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Breeding decisions

Annual performance review

Template for annual performance reivews.

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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.

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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

Farm Business Continuity Plan (Word doc)

Help to ensure your business keeps running in the event of something bad or unexpected happening.

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Planning



Farm Business Plan

Writing a business plan helps you organise your thoughts and map out the road to where you want to take your business.

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Planning



Farm Business Plan (editable PDF)

Create a business plan suitable for sharing with your bank, potential investors, business partners, farm advisory team or staff.

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Planning



Farm Business Plan - Template Guide

Create a business plan suitable for sharing with your bank, potential investors, business partners, farm advisory team or staff.

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Planning

Farm Dairy Effluent (FDE) Spreading Calculator

Download this handy tool to take the guesswork out of determining your effluent nutrient loadings.

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Environment

Farm Dairy Effluent Design Standards and Code of Practice

A set of standards against which to assess the design of individual farm dairy effluent (FDE) systems in New Zealand.

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Environment



Farm Dairy Effluent Systems - Planning the right system for your farm

This booklet helps you ask the right questions to get most appropriate farm dairy effluent system installed.

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Environment



Farm Incident/Near Miss Report

On farm form to record all incidents, injuries, accidents and near-misses

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Health and safety



Farm Management Calendar

This calendar contains information to assist you in managing important activities and tasks on your dairy farm.

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Planning

Farm Owner Checklist do your homework before you sign

This checklist will help you consider options for your farming business, help you start the relationship on a good footing and keep things on track.

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Business

Farmers Forum 2023 Workbook Canterbury

The 2023 Farmers’ Forum provided a unique opportunity for you to hear about the latest research and developments for on and off the farm.

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Dairy Sector

Farmers Forum 2023 Workbook Hamilton

The 2023 Farmers’ Forum provided a unique opportunity for you to hear about the latest research and developments for on and off the farm.

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Dairy Sector

Farmfact 6-28: Effluent Slurries, Sludge and Solids Spreading

Spreading effluent solids requires specialist machinery which is suited to the type of effluent being spread.

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Environment

Farmfact 6-61: How Landscape And Climate Affect Effluent Managment

There are three main landscape and climate factors which play a role in the success of effluent application.

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Environment

Farming for a lower footprint – what should we focus on? (Technical Series September 2019)

Research on mitigating greenhouse gases and nitrogen leaching - Do they reduce farms’ environmental footprints and improve profitability?

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Research

Feed Pads

This Practice Note part is limited to feed pads constructed with concrete pad surfacing and without a roof or covering structure.

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Infrastructure

Feeding Swedes to Dairy Cows

A guide to feeding swedes to dairy cattle

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Feed

Feeding Swedes to Dairy Cows

One page advice for farmers feeding swedes to dairy cows.

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Feed

Feeding Systems Information Sheet

How to choose an inshed feeding system.

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Milking

Fencing (Waterway Technote)

Fencing waterway margins is an important step in protecting freshwater from nutrients, faecal matter and sediment.

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Environment



Field Anaemia Nearest Indicator (FANI) Card

Field guide on how to identify anaemia in cattle

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Health

Final DairyNZ Freshwater Postions Summary

A table summary on all DairyNZ’s positions and recommendation for submission on the proposed Essential Freshwater package.

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Regulations



Fit for Transport Poster

A poster on 8 things calves require to be fit for transport.

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Calves



Fix areas that make udders dirty - Smartsamm Technote 26

How to fix areas that make udders dirty

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Mastitis