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Featured · November-January 2026

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20 Oct 2025

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Featured · November-January 2026

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.

Tools & Apps

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.

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.

Tools & Apps

Planning

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

Annual Leave Calculator

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

Tools & Apps

People

Supplement Price Calculator

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

Tools & Apps

Feed

Once-a-Day (OAD) Milking: Surveys of Farmer Opinion

Proceedings of The Once-a-Day Milking Conference.

Resources

Milking



One-on-one review

Template for one-on-one reviews.

Resources

Performance management

Open Country Dairy suppliers Annual/Monthly Cashflow Budget

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.

Resources

Budgets

Operating Structure Decision Tree

A decision tree to help you decide what type of operating structure you should pursue for progression.

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Business

Owl Farm, Waikato

Owl Farm case study (2019) on environmental performance and its effect on production and profitability.

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Environment

Partial Budget Template

A simple planning tool used to estimate the financial gain or loss by changing some aspect of the business or making a ‘partial’ change to the farm system.

Resources

Budgets

Pastoral 21: Canterbury Site Summary

The aim of the Canterbury trial was to increase production, increase operating profit, reduce nitrate leaching, and hold P leaching losses.

Resources

Feed

Pastoral 21: Manawatu Site Summary

The aim of the Manawatu trial was to increase MS production, increase operating profit, and reduce N and P losses.

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Feed

Pastoral 21: Otago Site Summary

The aim of the South Otago trial was to increase MS production, increase operating profit, and reduce N and P losses.

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Feed

Pastoral 21: Waikato Site Summary

The aim of the Waikato trial was to increase milksolids, increase operating profit, and decrease N leaching.

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Feed

Pasture And Grazing Management: Pastoral 21

A ‘low N input, high efficiency’ (future approach) was tested in Waikato and Canterbury. This document summarises the experiences and results of these sites.

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Feed

Pasture Damage Score Guide

A visual assessment guide which provides an alternative way to compare paddocks for renewal or maintenance such as fertiliser, under or oversowing.

Resources

Feed

Pasture Road Map

Use this template to work backwards from balance date, when pasture supply is equal to demand, to autumn, to create a management plan for the year.

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Feed

Pasture species mixtures to reduce nitrogen leaching (Technical Series June 2017)

Mixed-species pastures (herb species added to grasses and white clover), can increase herbage production and reduce the risk of nitrogen leaching.

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Research



People Productivity Kit

The People Productivity Kit is your solution to managing employees for great performance.

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Performance management

Perennial Ryegrass Sowing Rate

Use this resource to find out what is the 'correct' perennial ryegrass sowing rate.

Resources

Feed

Performance assessment of a multi-stage treatment system on Warnocks farm

This focus' on the removal of suspended solids, nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) and of faecal indicator bacteria (FIB) by the treatment system was assessed.

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Environment

Performance of a constructed wetland intercepting run-off from a Lichfield dairy farm

Report prepared for DairyNZ by NIWA.

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Environment

Periphyton - nutrient relationships in rivers - 2017

A report prepared by NIWA for DairyNZ.

Resources

Environment

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.

Resources

Budgets

Pest animals (Waterway Technote)

Animal pests can cause havoc on your farm, ruin your planting and cause major problems in and around waterways.

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Environment

Pest plants (Waterway Technote)

Pest plants can cause havoc on your farm, ruin your planting and cause major problems in and around waterways.

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Environment



Phone Screening Template

Template and suggested questions for screening applicants by phone.

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Recruitment



Planning Wheel

Planning wheels are an easy way to bring together your thinking, form your vision and values statement, and determine focus areas, goals and actions.

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Planning