Spring feed management plays a key role in helping cows reach peak milk, hold production, and make the most of pasture while keeping supplement use targeted.

The first major update to the Dairy Cattle Code of Welfare in more than a decade marks an important step in ensuring animal welfare standards continue to evolve alongside scientific evidence and on-farm realities.

Other AI chat tools can be helpful for quick orientation and clear summaries, but when you need advice tailored to New Zealand farming conditions, access to a trusted, research-led source of information is essential. 

Lifting productivity and reducing the dairy sector's environmental footprint is the focus of a new multi-partner initiative.

Taranaki dairy manager Miriam Lauridsen says learning to question feed costs and pasture decisions through a Dairy Training course has improved both her confidence and on-farm decision-making.

DairyNZ modelling shows a Very Strong El Niño could push farm working expenses to $6.78/kgMS and the national breakeven milk price to $9.07/kgMS, as farmers are urged to prepare for tighter margins and potential feed shortages.

To understand the cost of marginal milk – the milksolids produced from extra supplementary feed – Northland Dairy Development Trust led a multi-year trial, supported by DairyNZ and other partners.

Herd-owning sharemilkers Tania and Johno Burrows know that building a more valuable farm system starts with getting the fundamentals right and improving the genetics of their herd with tools that help make the right decisions.

DairyNZ Chair, Tracy Brown talks about how the Government's latest resource management reforms are a welcome step towards a system that is simpler, more practical and better aligned with life on farm.

Updated analysis by Sense Partners confirms the dairy sector remains New Zealand’s largest export earner, directly provides more than 51,000 jobs across the country, and is a major purchaser of output from a large number of other sectors.

Farms across the upper North Island are trialling different pasture mixes as part of a research programme that aims to build greater resilience into farming systems.