Dairy NSW board meeting tomorrow. Just doing a last recheck of the papers to make sure I'm across it all.
Someone has use "we will revert" in correspondence to the board and I hate it with the fire of a thousand suns.
Dairy NSW board meeting tomorrow. Just doing a last recheck of the papers to make sure I'm across it all.
"In 2024, Fonterra reported that emissions from its New Zealand dairy farms were 20 percent higher per kilo of milk than their Australian counterparts. This challenges the common refrain that New Zealand produces the world’s lowest carbon dairy."
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Those of you that know me will be aware that I moved to the bush about 5 years ago and work on a big dairy farm. When I started that work, I expected it to be just something I did for a bit of variety.
It seems I can't help myself. While I have certainly *not* invested in a dairy operation (though at some point, not impossible), I can now say that as of yesterday, I am now one of the directors on the board of Dairy NSW, appointed as an industry director, i.e. not a farmer, but someone with experience in relevant sectors such as regulation, governance, and other industries.
With no word of a pisstake, I look forward to the challenges, etc.
I love this, so I
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Interesting thing of the day was getting some insight from the business owner of the farm I work at how the various bits of the business hang together - 2 dairies, calf breeding for beef, holstein, and wagyu, cropping, rotational grazing and crops chosen, how many calves per year, how long they spend on each property and what for, milk solids yield on a seasonal basis and quality thereof, pregnancy success from AI (the good kind, not the dumb computer kind) program, sale rates, semen and bloodline import sources, water rights and licenses and percentage usage of that water to ensure compliance, plus water and dairy solid waste reuse.
Thing I was most fascinated by was the aggregation and normalisation of data from two sources (dairy management software and breeding management software) and seeing deep data dance in PowerBI.
Don't anyone ever think that a successful agricultural business isn't complex and that farming is hicks chewing on a grass stalk.
I've made it clear (I hope) to the owner that I'd jump at the chance to spend a little time working in different parts of the business to get better insight into how everything moves.
Interesting thing of the day was getting some insight from the business owner of the farm I work at how the various bits of the business hang together - 2 dairies, calf breeding for beef, holstein, and wagyu, cropping, rotational grazing and crops chosen, how many calves per year, how long they spend on each property and what for, milk solids yield on a seasonal basis and quality thereof, pregnancy success from AI (the good kind, not the dumb computer kind) program, sale rates, semen and bloodline import sources, water rights and licenses and percentage usage of that water to ensure compliance, plus water and dairy solid waste reuse.
Thing I was most fascinated by was the aggregation and normalisation of data from two sources (dairy management software and breeding management software) and seeing deep data dance in PowerBI.
Don't anyone ever think that a successful agricultural business isn't complex and that farming is hicks chewing on a grass stalk.
I've made it clear (I hope) to the owner that I'd jump at the chance to spend a little time working in different parts of the business to get better insight into how everything moves.
I love this, so I
boosted
Cows were keen to come out of the paddock this morning. 1800 glowing eyes in the dark.
Cows were keen to come out of the paddock this morning. 1800 glowing eyes in the dark.