When you hire someone to keep your business running smoothly, you take on responsibility for managing an employment relationship. Getting the basics right around employment and team member health and safety is a necessity for a business owner.

Find out how to recruit quality staff, be a better manager, work within the law and grow your people. Employees, find out all you need to know to make the dairy industry your career.

Managing fertiliser application and rates effectively is critical to a productive dairy farm. This section covers how you can use fertilisers efficiently while minimising environmental impacts.

Analysing your past performance helps you plan for the future and is a key part of growing your business and achieving your goals.

Dairy nutrition is about understanding the nutrient requirements of dairy cows at various stages of lactation and combining various feed alternatives to meet those needs in a cost-effective manner.

To set a dairy cow up for a long, productive life you must give her the best possible start.

Lameness is welfare issue that takes time, energy and skill to treat so early identification of lame cows is critical.

Foot-and-mouth disease has reached the tourist hot spot of Bali, and the risk of it entering NZ on the footprint of an unwary traveller or by other means, is now a little too close for comfort.

Methane is a big topic and it’s a pressing concern for our sector. We need to reduce our emissions, while improving profitability – but how? In this episode we dig into the research DairyNZ’s doing in this area.

Does selecting bulls that have a high Fertility Breeding Value really improve your herd’s fertility?

Could reducing the number of milkings in a week help the dairy sector attract new staff and improve work-life balance?

Shobana Reddy joined DairyNZ as an intern in 2019 and has continued to be part of the DairyNZ whānau in her role as a Research Technician.

Holly Hay (Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Turumakina) kick-started her dairying career through DairyNZ by taking up a Māori summer internship as an undergraduate, before becoming a casual research technician.