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Hayden and Alecia Lawrence have just spent two weeks on holiday in Australia in the middle of autumn calving leaving their herd manager to handle multiple autumn and spring mobs. The capacity to enjoy such freedom has come from making key investments, from an expensive farm dairy to using the free management tool Trello. Sheryl Haitana reports.

You’re not employing yourself when you’re looking to attract and then retain staff. Anne Lee.

Hundreds of kilometres from an Ashburton dairy farm, a group of primary school students are kept up to date on the farm’s busy activities. By Anne Hardie.

Creating the right culture in a business where people live and work together is imperative, Anne Lee reports.

Welcome to the first two-monthly, new-look Dairy Exporter magazine.

Subsidised fees for migrant dairy staff is part of the Government’s objective of achieving a higher-skilled migrant workforce with the right skill mix to support economic recovery following the Covid-19 pandemic. By Karen Trebilcock.

By Stuart Davison.

Synthetic nitrogen use must be recorded and reported from the end of June. By Anne Lee.

Meeting a Sustainable Future is a levy-funded DairyNZ initiative to support farmers in the Selwyn and Hinds catchments meet their environmental obligations while optimising their farm systems for profit and resilience. By Virginia Serra.

A high proportion of New Zealand beef production has dairy industry origins. But is it really inferior? By Paul Muir of On Farm Research.

By Jackie Harrigan.

Anne Lee reports.

With a goal of less waste, less run-off, less nutrients entering the waterways, sea lettuce has great potential. By Elaine Fisher.

Effluent shouldn’t be a drain on your dairy farm. The right stirrer will help you to fully capitalise on this valuable resource.

When banks won’t lend, it’s the place of other institutions to step in. By Phil Edmonds.

By Chris McCullough.