Well-planned recruitment and selection, and a robust orientation process are key to finding the right fit for your team and giving new staff the best start possible.

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.

Correct soil fertility is critical for optimal plant growth.

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.

Information about growing different types of crops on your farm, wintering, and forages that reduce nitrate leaching.

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 demand on water resources continues to grow, making efficient practices more relevant than ever. Everyone has a role to play in saving water. Find out how to review your water use to identify where there's potential for greater efficiency.

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.

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.

Animal welfare is at the heart of any good farming business. Our responsibility for the wellbeing of stock starts at birth and continues, not only while they are in our care, but also beyond the farm gate.

Lameness is welfare issue that takes time, energy and skill to treat so early identification of lame cows is critical.

Udder health and milk quality are important to farm productivity and profitability. Every farm stands to gain from less mastitis.

In today’s tight labour market, we need to ensure our dairy farm assistant jobs are attractive and competitive – but how?

Methane is a big topic and it’s a pressing concern for our sector. We need to reduce our emissions, while improving profitability – but how? In this episode we dig into the research DairyNZ’s doing in this area.

What kind of technologies are farmers already using, why, and what are the next big things that could deliver value on-farm?

How did we arrive at our current wintering practices? What’s next for wintering animals on crop? And what kind of changes can you make on farm now?