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Featured · August-October edition

Read all the stories from the latest edition of Inside Dairy

28 Jul 2025

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Featured · August-October edition

Read all the stories from the latest edition of Inside Dairy

28 Jul 2025

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Featured apps

RAS List - July bull data now live

Discover NZ's top proven bulls in the July 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.

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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

Inside Dairy August-October 2025

This edition focuses on optimisation – with practical, people-focused ideas to boost on-farm productivity and sustainability.

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Inside Dairy



DairyBase Level 1 physical questionnaire

Completion of a level one physical questionnaire is required to provide supporting information for the financial or level two physical detail analysis.

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DairyBase



DairyBase Level 2 physical detail questionnaire

Completing the level two physical questionnaire will enable the generation of a level two physical detail report which is a two page report.

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DairyBase



Submission on RMA National Direction - Freshwater

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

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Regulations



Feeding Cows in Spring

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.

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Feed



Off paddock infrastructure investment checklist

Use this checklist as a guide for navigating the complex process of considering off-paddock infrastructure.

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Infrastructure



Emissions and Profitability

Understanding the relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and farm profitability.

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Research



Johne’s Disease - A control and prevention guide for New Zealand farmers

This guide highlights management strategies to control and reduce the prevalence of Johne’s disease on New Zealand dairy farms.

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Health



InCalf - Reproduction gap calculator

Estimate the value of your herd's reproductive 'gap'.

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Repro and mating



InCalf - Reproduction calendar

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

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Repro and mating



InCalf - Heat detection gap tool

This is a gap assessment tool. It assesses heat detection efficiency and the likely benefit of improving heat detection on your herd’s overall reproductive performance.

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Repro and mating



DairyNZ Economic Survey 2023-24

The 2023-24 DairyNZ Economic Survey is the nineteenth annual survey of New Zealand dairy farmers using dairy farm business data from DairyBase®.

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Economic Survey

Fonterra suppliers Annual/Monthly Cashflow Budget 2025-2026

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.

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Budgets



View from the Cowshed

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

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Dairy Sector

Conflicts of Interest policy - Directors

This policy sets out guidelines and procedures for identifying, declaring, documenting, and managing actual, potential and perceived conflicts of interests.

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DairyNZ Corporate

Submission on strengthening New Zealand’s emergency management legislation

DairyNZ has identified three areas that would strengthen New Zealand's emergency management legislation.

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Regulations



Breeding Values Comparison

Breeding Values (BVs) of current cows before (2005) and after (2015) the base change. You can see the breakdown of individual traits for cows that were average.

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Breeding decisions



Inside Dairy May-July 2025

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.

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Inside Dairy



Dairy Farm Career Pathways

The Dairy Farm Career Pathway descriptions create clear and consistent role expectations for employers and future career pathways for employees on New Zealand dairy farms, as well as providing a common framework and language that helps align industry activities.

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Employee resources

Submission on the review of the Biosecurity (Meat and Food Waste for Pigs) Regulations 2005

DairyNZs submission on the review of the Biosecurity (Meat and Food Waste for Pigs) Regulations 2005

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Regulations

DairyNZ evidence to the Climate Change Commission on National Climate Change Risk Assessment

Our evidence provides insights into the risks and opportunities a changing climate presents for New Zealand's dairy sector.

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Regulations



Tactics for reducing your environmental footprint

DairyNZ has pulled together nine tactics that will help farmers improve on-farm efficiency and have positive benefits for the environment. These tactics are based on research, data, and learnings from leading farmers.

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Environment



Selective DCT poster for rural advisers

Selective DCT poster for rural advisers

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Mastitis



Decide dry cow management strategy - Smartsamm Guideline 14

Use individual cow SCC for management decision

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Mastitis