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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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Featured

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.

Resources

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

Herd-owning job or sharemilking calculator

Herd-owning job or sharemilking calculator - understand how much money you will need and how you can fund a herd-owning job.

Resources

Business



Housed cow cleanliness score card

Regular cleanliness scoring can help monitor your herd’s health. Assess the cleanliness of your herd using this scoring method.

Resources

Infrastructure

IPENZ Practice Note 27 Dairy Farm Infrastructure

Offer industry guidance in the design and construction of some key infrastructure components that are related to farm dairy effluent management on NZ dairy farms.

Resources

Infrastructure

IPENZ Practice Note 29 Dairy Housing

Dairy Housing is to offer good practice guidance in the development, design and construction of building structures for housing dairy cows.

Resources

Infrastructure



Insurance claims checklist

A checklist that offers suggestions on how you can assist with making an insurance claim if a natural disaster causes you a loss.

Resources

Business

Life After Farming - Rhodes Donald

A study of retired farming couples in Otago/Southland.

Resources

Business

Life and Business Self Assessment

Work through the following 'self-assessment' form to identify your highest priority areas to work on.

Resources

Business

Management Guidelines Loose Housed Soft Bedding Shelter For Wintering Dairy Cows

Minimising the moisture content of barn bedding is important both in terms of cost and animal welfare.

Resources

Infrastructure

Miraka 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



Moving day planning document

A template to plan each persons responsibilities for the months leading to and the day of moving.

Resources

Planning



My Action Plan For The New Season

A visual way to capture your action plan for the new season.

Resources

Planning

Oceania 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

Off Paddock Investment Calculator

Crunching the numbers before spending money is critical. Use the Investment Calculator to work out what it might cost and what your return could be.

Resources

Infrastructure

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.

Resources

Business

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

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



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.

Resources

Planning



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.

Resources

Budgets

Return on assets and return on equity

A guide for Return on Assets and Return on Equity calculations.

Resources

Business



SWOT template

A SWOT analysis identifies our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for your business.

Resources

Planning

Sharemilking & progressing farmers checklist

This checklist will help you consider your options, decide whether a role is right for you and start the relationship on a good footing.

Resources

Business



Stand Off Pads

Your essential guide to planning, design and management.

Resources

Infrastructure

Stock Reconciliation Calculator

This stock reconciliation calculates Net sales (sales less purchases) and the value of any change in stock numbers giving "net livestock income".

Resources

Business