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Featured · November-January 2026

The latest Inside Dairy is now online, with news, farmer-led solutions, and science-backed tools.

20 Oct 2025

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Featured · November-January 2026

The latest Inside Dairy is now online, with news, farmer-led solutions, and science-backed tools.

20 Oct 2025

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Featured apps

RAS List - November bull data now live

Discover NZ's top proven bulls in the November Ranking of Active Sires (RAS) list update

Ranking of Active Sires

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Bull Search

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Bull Search

Search for an individual bull or set criteria to produce a list of bulls to suit your requirements.

Tools & Apps

Breeding decisions

Annual performance review

Template for annual performance reivews.

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Performance management

Feed budgets

Choose from a one-page Simple Feed Budget Calculator, Simple Feed Budget with Body Condition Score (BCS) Calculator, the Monthly Feed Budget, or Annual Feed Budget.

Tools & Apps

Feed budgets

DairyNZ Econ Tracker tool

The DairyNZ Econ Tracker is an online tool that brings you economic information relevant to the New Zealand dairy sector right now.

Tools & Apps

Planning

DairyBase login

Login to your DairyBase account and access all the information you need to make confident and effective farm management decisions.

Tools & Apps

Business

Annual Leave Calculator

Use this calculator to work out annual leave entitlement for your employees.

Tools & Apps

People

Supplement Price Calculator

The supplementary feed price calculator allows you to determine how much you can pay for supplementary feed.

Tools & Apps

Feed

Once-a-Day (OAD) Milking: Surveys of Farmer Opinion

Proceedings of The Once-a-Day Milking Conference.

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Milking



One-on-one review

Template for one-on-one reviews.

Resources

Performance management

Open Country Dairy suppliers Annual/Monthly Cashflow Budget

A monthly cashflow budget takes your annual cash budget and spreads your income and expenses across the year giving you a month-by-month basis picture.

Resources

Budgets

Operating Structure Decision Tree

A decision tree to help you decide what type of operating structure you should pursue for progression.

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Business

Owl Farm, Waikato

Owl Farm case study (2019) on environmental performance and its effect on production and profitability.

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Environment

Partial Budget Template

A simple planning tool used to estimate the financial gain or loss by changing some aspect of the business or making a ‘partial’ change to the farm system.

Resources

Budgets

Pastoral 21: Canterbury Site Summary

The aim of the Canterbury trial was to increase production, increase operating profit, reduce nitrate leaching, and hold P leaching losses.

Resources

Feed

Pastoral 21: Manawatu Site Summary

The aim of the Manawatu trial was to increase MS production, increase operating profit, and reduce N and P losses.

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Feed

Pastoral 21: Otago Site Summary

The aim of the South Otago trial was to increase MS production, increase operating profit, and reduce N and P losses.

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Feed

Pastoral 21: Waikato Site Summary

The aim of the Waikato trial was to increase milksolids, increase operating profit, and decrease N leaching.

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Feed

Pasture And Grazing Management: Pastoral 21

A ‘low N input, high efficiency’ (future approach) was tested in Waikato and Canterbury. This document summarises the experiences and results of these sites.

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Feed

Pasture Damage Score Guide

A visual assessment guide which provides an alternative way to compare paddocks for renewal or maintenance such as fertiliser, under or oversowing.

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Feed

Pasture Road Map

Use this template to work backwards from balance date, when pasture supply is equal to demand, to autumn, to create a management plan for the year.

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Feed

Pasture species mixtures to reduce nitrogen leaching (Technical Series June 2017)

Mixed-species pastures (herb species added to grasses and white clover), can increase herbage production and reduce the risk of nitrogen leaching.

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Research



People Productivity Kit

The People Productivity Kit is your solution to managing employees for great performance.

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Performance management

Perennial Ryegrass Sowing Rate

Use this resource to find out what is the 'correct' perennial ryegrass sowing rate.

Resources

Feed

Performance assessment of a multi-stage treatment system on Warnocks farm

This focus' on the removal of suspended solids, nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) and of faecal indicator bacteria (FIB) by the treatment system was assessed.

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Environment

Performance of a constructed wetland intercepting run-off from a Lichfield dairy farm

Report prepared for DairyNZ by NIWA.

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Environment

Periphyton - nutrient relationships in rivers - 2017

A report prepared by NIWA for DairyNZ.

Resources

Environment

Personal cash budget

A personal cash budget is for anyone who wants to know where their money is going. It is particularly useful for farmers on a wage or salary.

Resources

Budgets

Pest animals (Waterway Technote)

Animal pests can cause havoc on your farm, ruin your planting and cause major problems in and around waterways.

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Environment

Pest plants (Waterway Technote)

Pest plants can cause havoc on your farm, ruin your planting and cause major problems in and around waterways.

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Environment



Phone Screening Template

Template and suggested questions for screening applicants by phone.

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Recruitment



Planning Wheel

Planning wheels are an easy way to bring together your thinking, form your vision and values statement, and determine focus areas, goals and actions.

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Planning