Previous Focus Days
Focus Day - 9 October 2024 (LUDF)
Topics covered:
- Lowdown on LUDF
- Save Money, Make Money, Manage Money
- Grow more grass with each pass
Focus Days - 30 April 2024
(Highveld Pastures - Methven) &
1 May 2024 (Waimak Dairies - Eyrewell Forest)
1 May 2024 (Waimak Dairies - Eyrewell Forest)
SIDDC Focus Days were held at Highveld Pastures, Methven on 30 April 2024 and at Waimak Dairies, Eyrewell Forest on 1 May 2024
Topics covered:
- Flexible Milking – (Flo Coetzee from Highveld Pastures & Richard Pearse from Waimak Dairies)
- Update on the Reproduction Project
Focus Day 14 February 2024 (LUDF)
Topics Covered:
- Scope Three & LUDF's Environmental Journey - Virginia Serra (DairyNZ), Louise Cook & Sean Spence (Fonterra)
- Wellbeing Farmstrong - Jack Cocks
- Plantain - the LUDF Journey - Omar Al-Marashedeh (Lincoln University)
Focus Day 4 October 2023 (LUDF)
Topics Covered:
- LUDF Update
- History of SIDDC
- 2023 Reproduction Update
- Break-even Milk Price for your Business
- Cost Control in our Business
- Plantain
- Safer Farms
Links to audio presentations:
- AUDIO Paul Edwards Dairy NZ
- AUDIO Jeremy Savage MRB
- AUDIO Blair Robinson Dairy Holdings
- AUDIO Stephen Esposito Safer Farms
- AUDIO Omar Al Marashdeh Lincoln Uni
Focus Day 19 June 2023 - (Ashburton Event Centre)
Focus Day 26 April 2023 - (Alderbrook Farm - Rakaia)
Focus Day 15 February 2023 (LUDF)
Farm Data
Farm Walks
Weekly Farm Walks – starting Wed 28 August 2024
Our weekly farm walks are due to commence at 9.00am (sharp) on Wednesday 28 August 2024.
Please text Peter Hancox on 0274 409 285 to confirm your place.
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