This guide outlines what to expect from an ad-lib feeding system and provides information to support successful set-up on farm.

Evidence-based strategies to optimise your farm system, while maintaining productivity and profitability.

A farmer's guide to managing and preventing lameness on New Zealand dairy farms.

Anyone coming onto your farm may pose a risk to the health of your staff or animals and could bring weeds and pests along for the ride. To reduce this risk, it’s important to set up some simple controls.

Display this sign at the farm entrance to ensure visitors contact you before entering.

Biosecurity risk assessment that covers visiting overseas farms, what to consider before returning to New Zealand, and what to do on arrival..

Display this sign at the farm entrance to ensure visitors contact you before entering.

This booklet contains answers to the frequently asked questions about feeding dairy cows in spring. It is a resource to help farmers make profitable and sustainable feed management decisions on pasture-based farms and has been developed within the FeedRight programme led by DairyNZ’s Dr Jane Kay.

This edition focuses on optimisation – with practical, people-focused ideas to boost on-farm productivity and sustainability.

This guide highlights management strategies to control and reduce the prevalence of Johne’s disease on New Zealand dairy farms.

Understanding the relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and farm profitability.

This guide describes what good environmental management looks like on a dairy farm and focuses on ten key areas for environmental management.

The latest edition of Inside Dairy is out today. Covering the latest news and insights in the dairy sector, DairyNZ science and research, and inspiring stories.

For reoccurring tasks on farm, use these template cards, which include images to make them easily recognisable. You can laminate them to make them reuseable.

Kikuyu is a subtropical grass which is well established in northern New Zealand and requires very different management from ryegrass-clover-based pastures. Read our guide on how to manage Kikuyu in your farm system and maximise profitability.

An overview of how protecting your farm business from the adverse impacts of animal and plant pests and diseases is one of your top priorities.

This is a tool to assess bull management practices on the farm and the risk that they may reduce herd reproductive performance.

An example farm budget of an average NZ owner-operator.