This guide is designed to help New Zealand farmers work through the key decisions involved in planning, building, and operating a composting barn within a pasture-based system.

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.

This poster outlines nine key signs of a healthy vs unhealthy calf, including alertness, good appetite, temperature and steady breathing, to help your team ensure optimal animal welfare.

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.

We are submitting on this consultation to highlight the importance of a strong sheep and pig traceability system that supports market access, aligns with practices of our trading partners, and strengthens New Zealand’s biosecurity system.

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

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

A brief guide to Breeding Worth, Breeding Values, Production Worth and Lactation Worth.

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

A farmer's guide to treating lameness.

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.

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.

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

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