Choosing the right plant species and cultivar is essential for optimising pasture life, feed availability, and your profit. Match these to your farm's specific conditions like climate, soil, and pests.

Meeting a Sustainable Future was a levy funded DairyNZ initiative to support farmers in the Selwyn and Hinds catchments meet their environmental obligations while optimising their farm systems for profit and resilience.

The NZIPIM Certified Dairy Farm Systems Consultants focus on identifying risks and opportunities on farms through a whole farm systems approach, providing tailored recommendations.

Prolonged wet weather poses challenges to normal farming activities by saturating soils. This page provides information on managing the impact of wet weather on dairy farming.

Owl Farm, owned by St Peters School in Cambridge, is a demonstration farm run for the benefit of the school, the students, the local community, and the dairy sector.

Why plan? Planning is an essential tool in helping you build a successful business, as it helps to clarify goals and strategies, and ensures that you are achieving the best results.

This high input, highly stocked farm, depends on effective feed monitoring, efficient effluent management and improving herd fertility for success.

Paritea is one of eight Ngāi Tahu dairy farms at Whenua Hou, Eyrewell. Ngāi Tahu Farming is committed to best practice and continuous improvement in the cultural, social, environmental and economic outcomes of its operations.

Driscoll Dairies Ltd, Home farm, is a 675 cow, high input farm near Winton. Good pasture utilisation, and efficient use of in shed feeding are a priority. Building a sustainable and resilient business are important for the farm owners.

The DairyNZ-led FRNL programme – a cross-sector approach (2013-2019) provided new scientific knowledge, tools and technologies for forage production that can amount to more than 20% reduction of nitrate leaching from dairy farms.

Heavy snow affects both the physical and emotional well-being of farming families and staff.

How do we reduce methane emissions from cattle within our pasture-based farming system? And when will farmers have solutions ready to use on-farm?

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.

Carrying out a ‘bucket test’ will help determine the application depth, rate, and how uniformly effluent is being applied during an irrigation event.

Use this calculator to measure the depth of effluent applied from a variety of effluent systems.

Use this calculator to calculate the dimensions and working volume of your effluent pond or tank.

This is a financial tool. It estimates the relative profitability of different catch crop options.

An overview of the income and expenditure you can expect in your first year.

A partial budget is often used to evaluate ideas and undertake sensitivity analyses. Once you've completed a partial budget, complete further analysis such as annual budgets and cashflows.

A balance sheet provides a snapshot of the current financial position. It is one of the major financial statements used by Chartered Accountants, business owners and bankers.