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Featured · May-July edition

Read all the stories from the latest edition of Inside Dairy

1 May 2025

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Featured · May-July edition

Read all the stories from the latest edition of Inside Dairy

1 May 2025

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Featured apps

Useful apps for the season ahead

Use our feed budgets, Workplace 360 and other apps to guide decisions over the coming days, weeks and months.

Feed budgets

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Workplace360

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Ranking of Active Sires

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Featured

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.

Resources

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

Spring Rotation Planner

The Spring Rotation Planner takes the guesswork out of grazing management over this critical period in the early spring.

Tools & Apps

Feed

Spring Rotation Planner - Advanced

The Advanced Spring Rotation Planner estimates feed supply and demand to allocate feed in the spring period.

Resources

Feed



Feeding Cows in Spring

Answers to the frequently asked questions about feeding dairy cows in spring.

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Feed



Spring Survival Guide

Easy-to-read reference covering the key activities on New Zealand dairy farms in spring, split into three sections: Putting people first, Pasture and supplement management, Taking care of your cows and calves.

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Feed

Decision Triggers For Using Off Paddock Facilities During Autumn And Spring

Trials have established that restricting the time cows spend grazing on wet soils in spring and autumn will reduce N leaching and pugging damage.

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Environment



Spring Rotation Planner

A guide with laminated poster for the shed/office wall to help you monitor and allocate feed through the first rotation.

Resources

Feed



FeedRight Module 17 - Allocate spring pastures correctly (early lactation)

Learn cow nutrition key principles and get practical knowledge.

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Nutrition



FeedRight Booklet

The most frequently asked questions about what, when and how to feed cows. Busting the myths on cow nutrition.

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Nutrition

Simple Feed Budget Calculator

This is the simple feed budget template, with an autumn, spring and winter example.

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Feed budgets

Short Rotation Rye Grass: P21 Research Trial

Trial results on using short-rotation ryegrass to improve matching spring-pasture supply with cow feed demand.

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Feed

LUDF Focus Day Handout

Update on LUDG 2020/21 season to date, focus on spring feeding, milk production, and mating.

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Environment

Technical Series June 2016

This issue of Technical Series covers kick-starting the milking season and how Italian ryegrass can boost spring production.

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Research