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Posted at 12:44pm Thursday 23rd Sep, 2010
 AgResearch’s new dairy and research development at Tokanui, near Te Awamutu, provides a vital facility for trialling new technology and farming practices.
The $6.5 million project, which was approved in 2008, involved converting AgResearch’s 340 hectare Tokanui beef finishing operation into a dairy farm. Milking started in August last year...
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Posted at 12:44pm Thursday 23rd Sep, 2010
 Ensuring the land itself was prepared for becoming a dairy research farm was an important part of the conversion process at AgResearch Tokanui.
Ravensdown account manager Teresa Tarr, based in Kihikihi, was brought on board with the project early on to prepare a Whole Farm Nutrient Management Plan.Teresa carried out an in-depth study into existing...
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Posted at 12:42pm Thursday 23rd Sep, 2010
 Walter and Hilda Walker from Waituhi Pastoral and their sharemilkers, daughter Joanne and her husband Darrell Osborne, began converting their 200ha farm near Te Kuiti from sheep and dry stock to dairy two years ago.“When we started the conversion I was going to do it over two years, before starting milking,” says Walter, “but the way...
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Posted at 12:41pm Thursday 23rd Sep, 2010
 “My father, Jim Gore, came here from Ngahinapouri in 1936 and the farm was then 760 acres,” says Ralph.“Only 500 acres was in pasture, the rest was semi developed and included a 100 acre swamp.
“Dad sold 310 acres to his brother after he came back from World War Two. “The farm used to be a racehorse breeding property...
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Posted at 12:35pm Thursday 23rd Sep, 2010
 What was previously a cow dairy was converted to a milking goat dairy. Currently into their fifth season milking Saanen and Saanen cross milking goats, the Averill’s are thrilled with their choice of milking companions.“Goat farming is very labour intensive,” says Kerry. “But I would never go back to milking cows.” The...
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Posted at 12:00am Friday 02nd Oct, 2009 | By Andrew Campbell andrew@thesun.co.nz
 A piece of New Zealand dairying history had to make way for Doug and Penny Storey’s new rotary dairy shed.
Front: Cruise Jackson, Niki Smith, Monique Jackson, Gary Smith. Back: Paul McGill and Jason Hare.
He used to milk out of two 12-a-side herringbone sheds set up to operate out of the same yard.
The cows walked up the same ramp to the...
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Posted at 12:00am Friday 02nd Oct, 2009 | By Ken Usmar ken@thesun.co.nz
 Peter and Marianne Muller farm 231 hectares near Otorohanga in the King Country where they milk between 680 and 700 cows.
Peter always felt rotary was the way to go.
Peter and Marianne run the property, which Peter’s parents originally bought when he was just eight years old, with the assistance of two farm labourers. Apart from a few years...
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Posted at 12:00am Friday 02nd Oct, 2009 | By Ken Usmar ken@thesun.co.nz
 Herd manager at the Johnstone shed in Otorohanga, Brett Jordan, says he has noticed a big change since the new shed was built.
“We used to milk 1050 cows through an old 40 bail internal rotary and that used to take about five and a half hours. Then we built this shed as a sister shed, and we’ve built this up to where we are milking about...
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Posted at 12:00am Friday 02nd Oct, 2009 | By Lois McKinley
 For a long time now, I have been driving past the Fox shed on a weekly basis and in it’s various stages I have admired the progress from old shed to new shed.
Back left to right: Stephen Vierboom, Shane Boyce, Gordon Faber, Kevin Mathis. Front left to right: Jim Fox, Wendy Boyce, Stephen Smith.
The new shed was being erected at the end of...
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Posted at 12:00am Friday 02nd Oct, 2009 | By Natasha Mitchell natasha@thesun.co.nz
 The building of Kelly and Lyn Symmans’ new milking shed was a real family job.
Lyn and Kelly Symmans (front) in the pit with Campbell Wheeler, son Sam Symmans and farm worker Bob Tepairi.
Kelly did much of the construction himself with the help of their son Sam, their daughter Katie and partner - builder Campbell Wheeler, and farm worker Bob...
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