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Featured · Updated resource

Dairy cow housing guide: design, cow comfort, good management principles and much more.

23 May 2025

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Featured · Updated resource

Dairy cow housing guide: design, cow comfort, good management principles and much more.

23 May 2025

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Workplace 360

Explore the redesigned Workplace 360 – your tool to assess and improve your workplace for a thriving, successful farm business.

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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

Farm Management Calendar

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

Resources

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 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.

Resources

Budgets

Quick Cash Budget Template

A quick cash budget is a condensed version of the annual cash budget, it is simplified to give a quick overview of your cash budget situation.

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Budgets

Annual cash budget template

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 for the season.

Tools & Apps

Budgets

Breakeven milk price

Breakeven milk price (BEMP) is the milk income per kilogram of milksolids required to cover all costs or outgoings.

Tools & Apps

Budgets

10-year equity forecast tool

The 10-year equity forecast tool forecasts a dairy farm business’s equity position over a 10-year period.

Tools & Apps

Planning

Dairy cow housing guide

A good practice guide for dairy housing in New Zealand

Resources

Infrastructure



DairyBase Data Request Form

To request access to DairyBase benchmarks, please complete the attached data request form and email it to info@dairybase.co.nz.

Resources

DairyBase



DairyBase Level 3 physical questionnaire (2023-2024 season)

A template to record the physical data for level 3 DairyBase.

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DairyBase



DairyBase Resource checklist - Level 2

The level 2 resource list is a summary of suggested documents needed to collect the physical detail data.

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DairyBase



DairyBase resource checklist - Level 1

A list of suggested documents to help you collect the information you need to complete the farm business description for DairyBase.

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DairyBase



DairyNZ QuickPlan - for dairy farm employees

This tool takes you through a three step process for strategically planning your path to success.

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Planning



DairyNZ QuickPlan - for farm owners and sharemilkers

This tool takes you through a three step process for strategically planning your path to success.

Resources

Planning

Decision Tree Farm Owners

Investigate different structures using this Decision Tree to determine which best suits your needs and aspirations.

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Business

Decision making matrix

The following tool is a useful technique for comparing options, of either a personal or business nature.

Resources

Business

Equity Partnership In Herd Owning Sharemilking Position

Description of equity partnerships in a sharemilking arrangement with advantages and considerations of this operating structure.

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Business

Equity Partnership in a Land Owning Farm Business

Description of equity partnerships in land with advantages and considerations of this operating structure.

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Business

Equity Partnerships

Description of equity partnerships with advantages and considerations of this operating structure.

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Business

Equity partnerships with separate investment in the farm trading company and the land company

Description of an equity partnership, where the land owning and the farm trading business entities are separated, and advantages and considerations.

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Business



Farm Business Continuity Plan (PDF - fillable)

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

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Planning



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 Management Calendar

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

Resources

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

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

Flexi Rate Sharemilking Agreement (Concept)

A new model for sharemilking with the share between parties moving with milk price changes.

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Business



Focus Areas Worksheet

After determining your vision, the next step is to identify key focus areas to deliver this vision. This worksheet provides example focus areas.

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Planning

Frontier Farms Fact Sheet

A summary on how DairyNZ research Frontier Farms will help Kiwi farmers stay world-leading.

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Business