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Featured · November-January 2026

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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.

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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

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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Environment

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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Environment

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



Annual performance review

Template for annual performance reivews.

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Performance management



Antibiotic Judicious Use Guidelines

Antibiotic judicious use guidelines for the New Zealand veterinary profession for dairy farming.

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Mastitis



Are you in charge of your direction?

Take a few moments to complete the following questionnaire and identify whether you are the captain of your own life journey and business.

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Planning

Assessment of potential constructed wetland sites within the Waituna catchment - NIWA 2013

Report prepared for DairyNZ and Environment Southland by NIWA.

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Environment

Attenuation of diffuse-source agricultural sediment and nutrients by riparian buffer zones

A report prepared by NIWA for DairyNZ.

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Environment



Automatic Milking Systems Booklet

This booklet is an introduction to automatic milking in New Zealand pastoral dairy systems.

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Milking

Balance Sheet Template

Provides a snapshot of the current financial position. It is one of the major financial statements used by Chartered Accountants, business owners and bankers.

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Feed

Baldwins Report Season 2 New Model

Performance of a constructed wetland receiving drainage water on a Lichfield dairy farm 2019.

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Environment

Ballindalloch Farm Efficiency Diagram

Annual summary of farm efficiency of farm management and production.

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Environment