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For two Canterbury calf rearers this season there are no compromises for hygiene as they do everything possible to reduce any risk of calves contracting rotavirus, coccidiosis or cryptosporidium. “Diseases through the sheds are really horrible and heart-breaking to work with. You're working hard to get them up and running and once they have rotavirus it’s hard to get back on top again,” shares ...

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Pareka farm has gone through a significant change in farm systems this season with the aim of cutting N losses and methane emissions, paving the way and creating learning opportunities for others.

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A traffic light system of a different kind - read about the way Canterbury vet and reproductive consultant Chris Norton has used the system with Frank Newman from Wolff Farm to help identify what’s going well and what needs work when it comes to the factors that contribute to great mating results.

Canterbury farm manager Barry Flynn has 100% confidence in collar technology for picking cows on heat. It means he can get off the vet stand and focus on managing pasture, easing staffing pressure. The Trutest Datamars collars are giving him other key data on individual cows that’s helping in other ways too. Check out NZ Dairy Exporter’s special report on reviewing mating to read Barry’s story.

Going contract milking or thinking about it? Flo and Jen Coetzee have worked their way through contract milking to equity management in an 1100 cow farm near Methven - Highveld Pastures. Take a look at our story in our February issue where they share some of the lessons they learned along the way on their journey.

The Woodhouse family’s irrigation improvements are creating resilience. Good data and investment into spray irrigation that allows lower rates to be applied at shorter return intervals will help maintain pasture production levels as nutrient inputs reduce with regulation.

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Comparative testing of regenerative and conventional fertiliser practices at Align Farms in Canterbury.

Maatua Hou. A bobby calf rearing venture with a twist - four young couples have set up an equity partnership, bought a 34ha block and created a venture where the farmers supplying the calves also pay. The farmers a guaranteed to get their money back when the calf is sold along with a share in any profit. Could this be a way to help reduce bobbies? Is there another way we could be rearing beef i...

The Dairy Exporter visited the Stewart family of Ashburton when they had a big job on - planting 8000 native trees, shrubs and grasses along 2 kilometres of waterways in just three days in partnership with their milk company Synlait’s Whakapuāwai programme. Three generations of the Stewart family on hand in late April were helped out by keen Synlait staff, ecological contractors Brailsfords - w...

Align Farms, a multi-farm Canterbury dairy operation is running a comparative study of regenerative agriculture against traditional Kiwi methods. Read about Rhys and Kiri Roberts' story in the December 2020 Dairy Exporter magazine.

We visited David and Kate Acland at Mt Somers Station where diversification is embedded in their intergenerational business vision. Dairy, beef, deer, sheep and honey, lambswool blankets, two country stores and a winery exporting to 17 countries. The 850-cow dairy conversion has been a key factor in making it all happen.

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