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

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.

A data standard that defines the requirements, processes, and procedures required for accurately recording parentage and breed recording, and genetic testing and associated metadata, and submission of this data to the Dairy Industry Good Animal Database (DIGAD) for use in animal evaluation. 

Facts for farmers on ticks and Theileria

Facts for farmers on detection and treatment of Theileria and anaemia in cattle.

Find out more about the importance of benchmarking. These "percentile" figures provide industry benchmarks.

Some key outcomes of major research programme is investigating management and genetic solutions to improve cow fertility, health and longevity.

Vets can use this template for a Healthy Hoof programme farm diagnosis and action plan

A table to calculate the value of feeding supplements to dry cows for body condition score (BCS) gain.

This report compares genetic trends from the dairy industries of Europe, North America, and Oceania using data either publicly available or supplied by the breeding organizations of the countries concerned.