Healthy Cows are grown from healthy Calves, the first start a Calf gets in life is incredibly important in determining how they will...

First Baby Mob of replacement Heifers outside in their paddock with North facing shelter at the back of the paddock. We have been...

Farmer Shayne feeding some silage out to some Wagyu Beef on the way to feed the Cows. Did you know that Milk is not only in Dairy...

Fonterra our Millk Supply Company has recently announced they will be rewarding more environmentally sustainable farms for lower...

(photo of last years calves growing well on one of our runoffs close to the home farm) We finish milking our cows in the first week of...

Starting new dogs in farm work is always interesting and each pup requires a flexible approach depending on their intelligence and how...

We are very aware of our carbon foot print on the farm so Reducing waste brought onto the farm is very important to us, we are always...

After a fairly dry start to summer with the strong possibility of a drought....we later had some reasonable sprinkles of rain which was...

Bees are incredibly important, there are over 20,000 species worldwide and they are the biodiversity we depend on for our survival. By...

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from us all on the farm. Christmas is still a fairly busy time, there is...

Early December is when we get contractors in to make high quality Silage. Silage is pickled pasture which is created when the grass is...

AI has started on the 1st of Nov (Artificial Insemination) some of the cows are artificially inseminated to ensure a more specific...

Each year we put in Kale & Swede mixed crops to feed our cows over the winter months when they are not milking but the grass isn't...

Each time a tanker collects milk from our farm there are many automatic tests done on the quality of the milk. SSC is measured in the...

The first herd replacement mob is outside in a large 2ha grass paddock with North facing shelters to keep them warm and dry. The shelters...

Once there is a big enough group of calves all drinking well, its time to get them drinking on a larger 50 teat feeder and then they can...

New season calves are always adorable, but also a surprizing amount of work too. Calves are one of the few animals born without any...

When out feeding the cows on the Kale and Swede crop, Shayne found a tiny soaking wet kitten at night. So he brought her home and I was...

Calving is an incredibly busy time on a Dairy Farm and getting everything ready, clean and sterilized and having spares if things break...

We have been lucky this year with quite a mild winter so far....we haven't had too many crisp frosts and there has been enough warmth in...