Winners of Competition
It’s not so much what you do but how you do it, was how the chief judge of the SourceNZ Dairy Business of the Year competition, Professor Keith Woodford of Lincoln University, summed up the event. Please click here.
Supreme Winner-Martin 1
Self reliance and teamwork has enabled Graeme (Gimmy) and Sharon Martin to increase their two farms’ milk production by 60 percent over the past five years. Please click here.
Medium Supplement Winner-Arnold
Tatua suppliers Bruce and Donna Arnold have increased their farm’s milk production from 100 kilograms of milksolids (MS)/ha to more than 1867 MS/ha. And now they are applying the same farming knowhow to a bigger operation this season. Please click here.
High Supp & Lower Nth Is Winner-Bennett & McErlean
Walton dairy farmers David and Raewyr Bernett have an operating profit of $3714/ha, more than four times the Waikato average of $780.
With the possibility of having 40 percent of their 420ha dairy unit submerged by floodwater at any time of the year, the McErleans, of Foxtoa, have had to learn to live and prosper with supplements.
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Supreme Winner-Martin 2
Several months after being named as the inaugural winners of the Dairy Business of the Year Competition, Graeme and Sharon Martin are still smiling. Please click here.
South Island Winner-Railside
A good farm, progressive players and a high-quality manager are the three key ingredients to the success of Railside Farm, 10km north of Oamaru. Please click here.
Finalists-O'Leary & Faulkner
Riding a bicycle 7200km from Paris to Dakar will give dairy farmer John Faulkner plenty of “head space” to refocus his thoughts on where to from here for the highly productive operation he and his wife Robyn run at Culverden, North Canterbury.
Waikato dairy farmers and finalists in the Dairy Business of the Year competition Brendon and Rochelle O’Leary have used a high input farming system to double production on their family owned 85ha peat farm in Gordonton.
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Lower North Island R/up-Williams
Jeff and Janice Williams have proven that intensive dairy farming with massive bought in inputs are not incompatible with profits or sustainability on their all-year-round calving and milking, 120ha Kairanga, Manawata, property. Please click here.
Low Supplement R/up-O'Shea
Patrick and Natasha (Tash) O’Shea, Dairy Business of the Year Competition finalists have a cost of production of $2.16/kg milksolids (MS) well beneath the $2.58 Waikato average. Please click here.
When Plan B is the Best Option
Te Awamutu dairy farmers David and Sue Forsythe were impressed by the lessons learned at an ICEHOUSE course. Please click here.
Support Systems Pay Their Way
Benchmarking of key performance indicators is vital for measuring a farm’s economic progress and allows for profitable decisions on-farm, according to Waikato dairy farmers Cameron and Tracey Holmes. Please click here.
Does Your Farm Measure Up?
The opportunity to learn from the way the best farmers run their business has few boundaries. And it is rarely limited by the area where the farm is, according to Red Sky Agricultural managing director, David Beca. Please click here.
Conference 2007-Bill Malcolm
Dairy farmers have been urged to stop “obsessing” about technology and get on with the job, by the keynote speaker at the Dairy Business of the Year Conference in Hamilton in late April. Please click here.
Conference 2007-Fegan & Donaghy
Dairy farmers may know how to measure grass but not people, John Fegan from ATR Solutions of Cambridge told the Dairy Business of the Year Conference in Hamilton in late April. Please click here.
Conference 2007-Derek Fairweather
Farmers must recognise that milk returns are the core business of their farm, not land value appreciation, Waikato Innovation Park’s chief executive Derek Fairweather told the Dairy Business of the Year Conference in Hamilton in late April. Please click here.
Australian Supreme Winner-Landy
The finalist in this year’s Australian Dairy Business of the Year had almost three times the return of assets (ROA) of the top entrants in the New Zealand competition. Please click here.
Where it all began...Tri-Nations
Dominic Groenendijk and Katrin Woermer of Insel Farm, Kio Kio, have been named winners of the Intelact Tri-Nations Cup and the company’s conference in Melbourne. Please click here.
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