Resources for Business Advisors
Tools, insights, and resources to support your conversations.
Welcome, Business Advisors
A central place for tools and information to support your expertise, and drive dairy farming success - on farm, every day.
Your go-to tools and resources
You're at the heart of the dairy sector, connecting farmers, processors, and the wider industry. As a financial advisor in the dairy industry, your insights help shape resilient, profitable and sustainable farm businesses. To support your work, we offer apps and resources designed to help you analyse, plan, and support farmers with confidence.
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Breakeven milk price calculator
Quickly assess the minimum milk price needed to cover costs and maintain profitability.
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Contract milking premium calculator
Help farmers estimate fair contracting rates with this easy-to-use tool that brings clarity to seasonal work agreements.
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Herd-owning job or sharemilking calculator
Herd-owning job or sharemilking calculator - understand how much money farmers will need and how they can fund a herd-owning job.
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Budget Templates
Streamline planning and reporting with ready-to-use templates for farm budgets and business plans.
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Econ Tracker
Stay up to date with economic trends and forecasts that impact dairy farming.
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DairyBase
Benchmark farm performance and gain insights into financial and physical data to support strategic decision-making.
Explore hidden gems in DairyNZ’s toolkit
These resources are designed to help you deliver clear, data-driven support that empowers farmers to make informed financial decisions. Use them to strengthen your impact and support sustainable farm success.
Build a successful farming business
Support farmers with practical resources that help them make confident business decisions for choosing the right business structure, managing finances, and planning for growth. Access practical tools below to support farmers in managing risk and building resilience:
Create the dream with your clients
Partner with farmers to shape thriving, future-focused businesses, starting today. Whether you're helping farmers craft a compelling business plan, define a clear vision statement, or build a practical action plan, these tools are designed to support meaningful conversations and confident decision-making:
Guide succession planning conversations
Navigate the complexities of farm succession with resources that support conversations, planning, and smooth transitions across generations with confidence. Discover key resources below to help facilitate conversations around succession planning:
Mark and Measure course
A three-day course to help dairy farmers at any business stage. It offers tools and coaching to create wealth, set aligned goals, and analyse your farm business. Delivered by DairyNZ.
Recommend Dairy Training to your clients
Dairy Training offers farmers practical learning opportunities to build their business skills, giving business advisors a great platform to encourage clients to grow their confidence.
See on-farm success in action with these budget case studies
Leadership in profitability and sustainability
Justin and Melissa Slattery have been on their 100 ha farm at Elstow, between Tahuna and Paeroa for 6 years. Their approach to farming is to be good stewards of the environment through having simple systems that are resource efficient.
Clear goals and maintaining a low-stress profitable farm
Dan and Kate King focus on high production per cow from low costs of production.
Podcasts
Unlock insights shaping farm finances with these podcasts
If you're looking for insights and perspectives to support your work with farmers, these podcast episodes are a valuable resource. We've curated a selection we think you'll find both relevant and thought-provoking for your role.
Stay current with a snapshot of the dairy sector
DairyNZ Economic Survey 2023-24
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3.7 MB
The 2023-24 DairyNZ Economic Survey is the nineteenth annual survey of New Zealand dairy farmers using dairy farm business data from DairyBase®.
View from the Cowshed
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Research
8.6 MB
DairyNZ has analysed survey results to share some farmers views on the outlook and challenges affecting them as they look to the future.
New Zealand Dairy Statistics 2023-24
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4.7 MB
New Zealand Dairy Statistics 2023-24 is a report that shows historical information up to and including the 2023-24 season.
Looking for something else?
Explore the links below to return to the Rural Professional Hub, contact your local area manager, explore current research, or sign up for updates on upcoming events, resources, and insights to support your work with farmers.
