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.

Use this template to create your own farm biosecurity plan and strengthen preparedness for potential threats.

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.

DairyNZ welcomes the opportunity to work with officials prior to the next phase of consultation, and on the broader RMA reform programme.

A calendar of relevant seasonal messages linking to different parts of the ‘herd fertility cake’.

DairyNZ has analysed survey results to share some farmers views on the outlook and challenges affecting them as they look to the future.

A template to record the physical data for level 3 DairyBase.

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.

An in-paddock pocket guide to assessing post-grazing residuals, pre-grazing yields and leaf stage of perennial ryegrass.

The new Inside Dairy is out today and it’s had a refresh. It’s still uniquely Inside Dairy, but with some exciting improvements and changes.

This is a gap calculator tool. It compares your level of overall reproductive performance to targets and estimates the scope for increasing operating profit through improved reproductive performance.

Economic benefits models relevant to Step 3 in the Herd Assessment Pack tools.

Use this table to identify the true cause of any inefficiencies you find and decide if they can be eliminated or minimised.

An assessment at the start of the process will give you a benchmark to measure your progress. Download the assessment, complete and keep it as your benchmark.

Work as a team to identify an activity to focus on (e.g. milking) and use the Target table to identify as many inefficiencies as you can.

A decision tree to help you create an environment that is safe and efficient and focus on what to do with important items so they are where you need them, when you need them.

A data standard that defines the requirements, processes, and procedures required for accurately recording static liveweight data to the Dairy Industry Good Animal Database for use in animal evaluation.