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.

In this page, you'll find details about different pests and common pests, weeds, and diseases of New Zealand pastures and brasicas.

To choose the right supplement for your farm, you need consider the cost of energy (cents/MJ ME), storage, wastage, and feeding logistics.

Our ability to grow and harvest high quality pasture for dairy cows is the main driver of profitability for the farm business.

Recycling, collection and safe disposal services are a responsible way to deal with farm waste – reducing the negative effects on the environment and health risks for both people and animals.

Good irrigation helps pasture grow better, providing more feed for animals. Whatever the chosen system, it should maximise the amount of pasture grown while using as little water as possible.

The land is one of dairy farmers’ greatest assets and managing it productively and sustainably to reduce sediment and phosphorus loss will add further value to the farm.

Being prepared for the future means 'knowing your numbers' in relation to both profit and environmental performance indicators to give clarity on potential adaption required for your farm system.

Dairy effluent is a valuable resource which, when managed well, increases pasture production and reduces fertiliser costs.

This section will help you understand the latest Government decisions and announcements in the climate change space and how the sector is responding.

Explore options to meet your goals, understand environmental requirements, and how to influence what is happening in your region.

This overview will display in detail all of your available options when considering off-paddock infrastructure investment.

Take control of spending decisions through budgeting. Once you get your budget sorted, everything else becomes easier.

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.

Dairy cow fertility is essential to every dairy business being productive. It is important to consider areas to focus on, in order to maximise the herd's reproductive performance.

If you are considering grazing dairy heifers it is important to assess whether your farm system can grow heifers to meet their target liveweights.

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

From lameness and heat stress, to facial eczema, Johne's disease and Theileria, keep up to date with the latest on cow health.

Animal management is a critical component of farm profitability and sustainability. From genetics to herd management and more, this section covers topics that will help guide your decisions.