Southern Dairy Hub Field Days
SDH Field Day – April 2025
Are you making money from milk, or milk from money?
With special guests: Kim Robinson (NDDT), Conal Harkin (Harkin Ag Consultancy), Hennie Amtink (local farmer)
Insights from the Northland Dairy Development Trust (NDDT) marginal milk trial – what makes supplements profitable?
Analysis from Conal Harkin on milk response rates & concentrate feed
Practical grass management tips from a local farmer
Resources and presentations
Milk Response Rates From Concentrates In Early
Lactation At Different Post Grazing Residuals
SDH Field Day – September 2024
Dairy Beef Field Day
With special guest: Ben Watson (Genez Ltd), Andrea Dixon (SDH), Jason Archer (Beef and Lamb Genetics), Elyse Fletcher (NZ AgBiz), and Alex Field (Waipuna farm, Pamu).
Resources and presentations
SDH Field Day – July 2024
Farming for the Future
Land and Water Plan update
Wintering update
Getting our recycle on
Resources and presentations
SDH Field Day – March 2024
Interpreting market signals: Navigating the future of greenhouse gas emissions
With special guest: Andy Macfarlane
Director of ANZCO and Fonterra Chair of SFFF Plantain Project
Resources and presentations
SDH Field Day - October 2023
Southern Dairy Hub – General Update
Bale wintering research
Heat stress research
Ryan Luckman: Transition, Pre-Mate & Mating
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5 years of research at the Southern Dairy Hub
Our first five years saw us engage in and complete over 20 projects at the Southern Dairy Hub.
Download the project list in the link below, along with our Field Day handout from October 2022 with summaries from our biggest projects.
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