NZ RESOURCES: DAIRY INDUSTRY

PART TWO

THE MODERN INDUSTRY

LOCAL & BOUTIQUE MARKETING

MILKING SHEEP 2002 Country Calendar: Milking Sheep (extracts)
MILKING GOATS 2008 Country Calendar: Milking Goats (extracts)
OPEN COUNTRY CHEESE Rural Delivery 14/07/2007 (extract)

BREEDING & GENETICS

FRIESIANS BEST BREED?
Grass Roots Business: Series 1 Episode 17 (extract)
LIVESTOCK IMPROVEMENT & GENES
Grass Roots Business: Series 3 Episode 7 (extract)
DNA PROFILING Close Up 26/09/2008 (extract)
CALVING NORTHLAND LOW FERTILITY
Grass Roots Business: Series 3 Episode 8 (extract)
CALVING IMPROVEMENT
Grass Roots Business: Series 3 Episode 14 (extract)

PASTURE & FEED

INTENSIFICATION
Grass Roots Business: Series 2 Episode 12 (extract)
WEST COAST CONVERSION & FEED LOGISTICS
Grass Roots Business: Series 3 Episode 12 (extract)
DAIRYPOINT SYSTEM RECORD PRODUCTION
Rural Delivery Series 1 Episode 24 (extract)
CALVING FEED TRANSITION DIET
Grass Roots Business: Series 3 Episode 8 (extract)
CANTERBURY IRRIGATION Rural Delivery 30/07/2005 (extract)
THE KING FLIP Country Calendar: West Coast (extracts)
GROUND PREPARATION & LAND USE NORTHLAND
Grass Roots Business: Series 2 Episode 8 (extract)

ANIMAL HEALTH & MILKING

ONCE A DAY MILKING
Grass Roots Business: Series 2 Episode 16 (extracts)
WAIKATO DROUGHT 2008 Farming Today 19/06/2008 (extracts)

ORGANICS
TE AROHA Country Calendar 14/04/2007 (extracts)
MATAMATA Rural Delivery 09/06/2007 (extract)
YOGHURT 2002 Country Calendar: Yoghurt (extracts)

RESEARCH
ROBOT MILKING Grass Roots Business: Series 1 Episode 1 (extract)
NORTHERN RESEARCH FARM
Grass Roots Business: Series 1 Episode 6 (extract)
MASSEY FEED RESEARCH
Grass Roots Business: Series 1 Episode 11 (extract)
AG TECH BUSINESS
Grass Roots Business: Series 1 Episode 14 (extract)
NOVEL WAYS INVENTIONS
Grass Roots Business: Series 1 Episode 19 (extract)
INFOTECH & DAIRY Grass Roots Business: Series 2 Episode 5
DEXCEL 2003 Grass Roots Business: Series 2 Episode 15 (extract)
LINCOLN BIOTRON
Grass Roots Business: Series 3 Episode 11 (extract)
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PART TWO

THE MODERN INDUSTRY

LOCAL & BOUTIQUE MARKETING

MILKING SHEEP 2002

Country Calendar: Milking Sheep (extracts)
TVNZ 2002 Duration 17:00
Janet and Miles King, who had spent most of their farming lives managing large properties,
have bought thirty acres on the outskirts of Masterton where they run a flock of East
Friesian cross milking sheep and turn the milk into sheep cheeses.

MILKING GOATS 2008

Country Calendar: Milking Goats (extracts)
TVNZ 2008 Duration 21:25
In 2001 John and Jeanne van Kuyks converted to organics, supplying Fonterra with organic
cow’s milk. They also started out in a new direction, milking a small herd of dairy goats and
making their own organic cheese. Originally from Holland they came to NZ in 1981 and
joined a long tradition of Dutch contribution to the New Zealand dairy industry.
John is responsible for looking after both the cow and goat herds and the pasture, while
Jeanne does the milking and cheese making.
She's won many awards for their cheeses and has customers all round the country.

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OPEN COUNTRY CHEESE
Rural Delivery 14/07/2007 (extract)
Showdown Productions 2007 Duration 7:50
Open Country Cheese was formed by Wyatt Creech and a number of other investors, when
the dairy industry export controls were relaxed and the industry deregulated from 2001
onwards. The Open Country Cheese product mix is predominantly cheddar, with some
edam, havarti, gouda, colby, kaimai red and kahui. Production is tailored to individual
customer specifications with sales of bulk cheese made to over 20 countries. To keep the
factory running all year round suppliers have some cows milking over winter.

BREEDING & GENETICS

FRIESIANS BEST BREED?

Grass Roots Business: Series 1 Episode 17 (extract)
Screentime Communicado 2002 Duration 4:29
This LIC and Dexcel NZ trial overseen by Prof Holmes from Massey compared production
from three strains of Holstein Friesians (US, NZ High Breeding worth, and NZ low merit 70’s
genetics) under a wide range of feeding conditions. The type of genetics for one system
may not suit another system eg. the US genetics may not suit pure pasture systems.

LIVESTOCK IMPROVEMENT & GENES

Grass Roots Business: Series 3 Episode 7 (extract)
Screentime Communicado 2004 Duration 4:29
Peter Gatley from LIC explains how they have patented two milk production genes and
are using gene selection as a pre-selection tool for production, speeding up the time
needed to progeny test bulls. Screening can also be done for undesirable genes like
those causing BLAD.

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DNA PROFILING
Close Up 26/09/2008 (extract)
TVNZ 2008 Duration 5:22
Genetic improvement using DNA profiling to breed super cows, extremely high
producing cows. While the industry grapples with falling world commodity prices genetic
researchers in Hamilton have found a way of breeding cows that will produce
considerably more milk. Michael Holland and the cutting edge DNA profiling that's
leading the world and speeding up progeny testing, and allowing AI with best of the best.

CALVING NORTHLAND LOW FERTILITY

Grass Roots Business: Series 3 Episode 8 (extract)
Screentime Communicado 2004 Duration 7:27
With a high rate of empty cows Evan and Sherleen Smeath of Hikurangi brought in
consultants to find the causes and lift production. They found four main issues: high
potassium levels in pasture, myco-toxins in maize silage, low levels of Cu, Co and Se,
and Bovine viral diarrhoea.. The details of their successful management practices are
discussed.

CALVING IMPROVEMENT
Grass Roots Business: Series 3 Episode 14 (extract)
Screentime Communicado 2004 Duration 5:33
Ashburton farmer Aaron Geddes had problems with low production, too many empty
cows, calving too spread out, high induction rates, and rumen acidosis. The details of
his successful management practices including the use of CIDR’s are discussed.

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PASTURE & FEED

INTENSIFICATION
Grass Roots Business: Series 2 Episode 12 (extract)
Screentime Communicado 2003 Duration 13:00
Mark Shaw on his Waikato farm shows a wide range of management practices that
enable him to achieve 2,000kg MS per hectare and 430kg per cow. His choice of
Jerseys (because of their better feed conversion), split calving for better utilization of
resources, JET system (Jersey genetics), internal and external parasite control, fescue
(deep rooted suiting the dry) and a new automated rotary shed all contribute to his high
production.

WEST COAST CONVERSION & FEED LOGISTICS

Grass Roots Business: Series 3 Episode 12 (extract)
Screentime Communicado 2004 Duration 11:50
Don and Andrew Mirfin converted from sheep and beef to dairy about 1994 because it
was economically better. They farm in the Upper Grey Valley on the West Coast with its
wet climate issues. Needing to be able to harvest when they need to has meant they do
their own contracting.
Their use of molasses is also innovative.

DAIRYPOINT SYSTEM RECORD PRODUCTION

Rural Delivery Series 1 Episode 24 (extract)
Showdown Productions 2005 Duration 4:55
David Drake explains how his Dairypoint computer program is helping him make record
production. He shows growth/supply curves and demand, balancing feed with cow
numbers, effect of climate and fertilizer, and the use of a rising plate meter to check
growth.

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CALVING FEED TRANSITION DIET
Grass Roots Business: Series 3 Episode 8 (extract)
Screentime Communicado 2004 Duration 7:16
Graham and Rebecca Barlow aim for 400kg MS per cow, and with over 8 cows per hectare,
feeding before calving has to be carefully managed to avoid metabolic diseases. The
transition diet (3 weeks prior and 3 weeks after calving) affects the whole season’s
production especially on high input farms. Prior to calving the cows receive a high energy
diet with minerals, and after calving they get a high protein diet plus mineral oxides and
molasses.

CANTERBURY IRRIGATION
Rural Delivery 30/07/2005 (extract)
Screentime Communicado 2005 Duration 8:52
Leo and Kathryn Van der Beuken show their use of border dykes (using water from a small
private irrigation scheme on the Rakaia River), and measuring pasture with a rising plate
meter.

THE KING FLIP

Country Calendar: West Coast (extracts)
TVNZ 2007 Duration 7:41
A profile of two dairy farmers (Mark Burnett and Alex King) who have used a spectacular
method of land development to increase both their cow numbers and production. The
West Coast is a very high rainfall area and their Pakihi soils are very poorly drained.
Poor water movement leads to saturated soils with low growth rates and severe pugging
with cows standing in mud. Open drains have very little affect on these soils. By
breaking the iron pan, mixing the sand with the top soil and putting the sloppy soil down
the bottom these soils can then be made to be very productive.
The King Flip was invented by Fred King, and his son Alex has furthered the method.

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GROUND PREPARATION & LAND USE NORTHLAND
Grass Roots Business: Series 2 Episode 8 (extract)
Screentime Communicado 2003 Duration 12:52
Barton, Claire and Neil Brown discuss the management practices they have found to
increase production on their Northland farm. Heavy clay soils, dry summers and wet
winters, and kikuyu pastures are some of the problems. Pasture renewal and split
calving (autumn and spring) are some of the solutions.

ANIMAL HEALTH & MILKING

ONCE A DAY MILKING

Grass Roots Business: Series 2 Episode 16 (extracts)
Screentime Communicado 2003 Duration 14:00
Visits to the Hendriks and Bateup farms in Northern Waikato where both of these farms
are trialling 'once a day' milking. Benefits to the farmers (like it becoming an easier job)
and to the cows (less stressed, healthier and less empty cows) are examined along with
possible risks.

WAIKATO DROUGHT 2008

Farming Today 19/06/2008 (extracts)
TV Central 2008 Duration 14:39
A look at what to do with dairy cows after the long hot summer and the drought in the
Waikato. A very useful detailed discussion, with Vet Chris Compton, on animal health,
feeding, and the need to monitor cows during and after the winter following a drought.

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ORGANICS

TE AROHA
Country Calendar 14/04/2007 (extracts)
TVNZ 2007 Duration 7:41
In the early 1990s Te Aroha sharemilkers Gavin and Sheryn Fisher were looking for a
way to secure their future in the industry. At the time, many other dairy farmers were
being lured south by the cheaper and greener pastures of Southland. For a fraction of
the cost of Waikato farmland, they were snapping up sheep farms and converting them
to dairy units. But the Fishers opted to stay in their home district. The higher land prices
in Waikato meant they had to continue sharemilking - and to make it work financially,
they also had to keep costs down. That meant running a modest number of cows and
cutting back their inputs of fertiliser and animal health remedies. As they struggled to
come up with a workable plan, they found themselves constantly returning to one radical
idea. "We did some research and we kept coming up with organics," says Gavin. "It just
felt right."
The Fishers' farm, Mountain View Organics was one of only 70 certified organic dairy
farms supplying milk to Fonterra in 2007.

MATAMATA
Rural Delivery 09/06/2007 (extract)
Showdown Productions 2007 Duration 8:02
There is strong demand from developed markets for organic milk products from New
Zealand which is perceived as clean and green. Fonterra re-looked at its organic
programme, seeking to make it more market-focused. The goal became to have 200
organic farmers and this has since evolved to 50,000-52,000 cows producing 14.5
million kilograms of milk solids. The company is now about one third of the way to
meeting this target with 70 suppliers in the programme and 27 in conversion.
John Vosper and Liz MacKay’s Matamata farm is in its first year of full organic
certification, although they had been farming conventionally since 1992. The Vosper's
have found organics more challenging, but also more rewarding, than conventional
dairying. John is very grateful to organics’ dairying pioneers, who, with little or no
financial incentive, showed ways that the problems of conversion could be worked
through.
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YOGHURT 2002
Country Calendar: Yoghurt (extracts)
TVNZ 2002 Duration 21:25
A tour of one of the few organic dairy farms in New Zealand, a Manawatu farm run by
farmer and ex-musician, Jamie Tait-Jamison and his wife Cathy.

RESEARCH

ROBOT MILKING
Grass Roots Business: Series 1 Episode 1 (extract)
Screentime Communicado 2002 Duration 4:50
Dexcel researching automatic dairy milking. The robotic machine is able to milk cows 24
hours a day.

NORTHERN RESEARCH FARM

Grass Roots Business: Series 1 Episode 6 (extract)
Screentime Communicado 2002 Duration 4:35
Specialising in pasture research this farm is comparing the production of high
endophyte, low endophyte and resident kikuyu pasture in Northland.

MASSEY FEED RESEARCH

Grass Roots Business: Series 1 Episode 11 (extract)
Screentime Communicado 2002 Duration 3:54
Jennifer Burke, a Massey University lecturer, explains research on the use of forage
crops (particularly the role of condensed tannins) to supplement pasture especially when
pasture quality declines.

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AG TECH BUSINESS
Grass Roots Business: Series 1 Episode 14 (extract)
Screentime Communicado 2002 Duration 5:11
John Austin’s agricultural contracting business, focusing on the role of new technologies
especially GPS, yield monitoring and yield maps.

NOVEL WAYS INVENTIONS

Grass Roots Business: Series 1 Episode 19 (extract)
Screentime Communicado 2002 Duration 4:35
Graham Lynch from Novel Ways shows some of their inventions including a gate
release timer, a pasture dry matter meter, and an automatic pest trap.

INFOTECH & DAIRY

Grass Roots Business: Series 2 Episode 5 (extract)
Screentime Communicado 2003 Duration 4:52
Mike Montgomery on a Waikato farm explains how cow production data on electronically
tagged cows goes via mobile phone to LIC computer.

DEXCEL 2003
Grass Roots Business: Series 2 Episode 15 (extract)
Screentime Communicado 2003 Duration 3:36
John Caradus the Chief Executive of Dexcel (the dairy industry’s research and
development organisation) is interviewed about their target of increasing productivity by
4% a year.

LINCOLN BIOTRON
Grass Roots Business: Series 3 Episode 11 (extract)
Screentime Communicado 2004 Duration 4:11
Steve Wratten from Lincoln University shows the Biotron, a climate controlled biological
science laboratory. Biotron can create any NZ climate and can be used to study any
pests, weeds, diseases and crops in a particular climate.

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