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Featured · BCS - meet your targets before dry-off

Use our BCS tools to meet targets and set up strong for next season

20 Feb 2026

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Featured · BCS - meet your targets before dry-off

Use our BCS tools to meet targets and set up strong for next season

20 Feb 2026

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RAS List - March bull data now live

Discover NZ's top proven bulls in the latest 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

Practise good hygiene during milking - Smartsamm Technote 8

How to practise good hygiene during milking

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Mastitis



Rapidly find record treat clinical cases - Smartsamm Technote 10

How to rapidly find, record and treat clinical cases in recently calved cows

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Mastitis



Rapidly find record treat clinical cases recently calved cows - Smartsamm Technote 4

How to rapidly find, record and treat clinical cases in recently calved cows

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Mastitis



Take care with heifers - Smartsamm Technote 2

How to take care with heifers during milking

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Animal



Use good milking technique and a consistent routine - Smartsamm Technote 5

How to use good milking technique and a consistent routine

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Mastitis



Use individual cow SCC for management decisions - Smartsamm Technote 12

How to use individual cow SCC for management decision

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Mastitis



10 Year Equity Forecast Tool

Gain a complete picture of your business and personal equity or wealth.

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Planning

3 Milkings In 2 Days

The aim of this paper is to give a practical overview of milking 3 times in 2 days (3 in 2) and discuss the pros and cons of using this regime.

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Milking



A Better BW for the New Zealand Dairy Sector Consultation Discussion Document

The information gathered will help direct decisions around the future of Breeding Worth evaluations for the New Zealand dairy herd.

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Breeding decisions



A Better Breeding Worth for Dairy Farmers Consultation Document

The proposed operating model for a better Breeding Worth system with genomics in 2024.

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Breeding decisions

A Farmers Guide To Building A New Effluent Storage Pond

This guide aims to help farmers when building a new effluent pond including; planning, working with consultants and contractors, and design options.

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Environment



A farmer's guide to managing farm dairy effluent

A good practice guide to land application, for farm owners, sharemilkers, farm managers and effluent professionals.

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Effluent



A staff guide to operating your effluent irrigation system - Low rate system

This booklet helps take farm staff through the important parts of operating and maintaining a low rate effluent system.

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Irrigation



A staff guide to operating your effluent irrigation system - Travelling irrigator system

This booklet helps take farm staff through the important parts of operating and maintaining a travelling irrigator effluent system.

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Irrigation

AB Lime, Southland

An AB Lime dairy farm in Winton, Southland case study (2019) on environmental performance and the effect on production and profitability.

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Environment



Action planner and template

The following action planner template will help you identify required actions to achieve each goal.

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Planning



Administer dry cow treatments as recommended - Smartsamm Technote 17

How to administer dry cow treatments as recommended

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Mastitis

Advice for Southland and South Otago farmers experiencing full effluent ponds

This is support and advice for farmers in Southland and South Otago that are experiencing full effluent ponds due to adverse weather.

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Environment

Alderbrook Farm Field Day Handout March 2020

The project focuses on how farms in Hinds and Selwyn can meet N loss limits and maintain profitable businesses under the Canterbury Land & Water Regional Plan.

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Environment



Animal Welfare (Painful Husbandry Procedures) - Code of Welfare 2005

This code covers all painful husbandry procedures and provides specific information for castration, tail docking, and disbudding and dehorning.

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Welfare

Annual Cash Budget

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.

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Budgets

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.

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Budgets



Annual Training Plan

Training template for identifying key strengths and opportunities.

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Performance management

Annual and event suspended sediment loads for the Aparima River 2015-2019

A report prepared by NIWA for DairyNZ.

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Environment