High-performance dairy nutrition using sustainable inputs to enable on-farm formulation. Designed to improve kg MS and reduce cost per kg.
Book A 30-Minute Review →Feed costs continue to rise while many feeding strategies remain generic and reactive.
Inconsistent ingredient quality, poor alignment with pasture, and one-size-fits-all blends often lead to increased costs and missed production potential.
We take a different approach.
Designing tailored, on-farm nutrition strategies using high-value sustainable inputs. Every formulation is built around your system, your herd, and your profitability targets.
Your farm is unique. Your nutrition should be too. We design and adjust rations based on your pasture curve, herd demands, and seasonal changes.
We source high-value co-products and specialty ingredients not widely available. Giving your system a measurable performance edge.
Reliable inputs, verified nutrient testing, and controlled supply mean fewer surprises and more predictable performance across the season.
Our circular approach to feed inputs reduces environmental impact while improving cost efficiency, delivering sustainability with real commercial return.
Enhance production, minimise costs.
Across New Zealand dairy farms, our targeted formulations are helping herds:
Lift kg MS/cow/day through improved energy delivery
Reduce feed losses with more consistent, palatable blends
Improve early‑season performance and flatten dietary dips
Achieve higher profitability from feed input costs
Real farms. Real numbers.
Even small changes in feed efficiency can make a measurable difference across the season.
1.8 kg MS/cow.day
$9.00 feed cost/cow/day
$5.00 cost oer kg MS
2.0 kg MS/cow/day
$9.40 feed cost/cow/day
$4.70 cost pero kg MS
Disclaimer: Example only. Based on a modelled 500-cow scenario over 200 days using improved kg MS/cow/day and cost-per-kg MS calculations. Actual results vary by farm system, payout, pasture conditions, feed inputs, and seasonal performance. We’ll build this using your real numbers.
Understand your farm system, herd, and constraints
Build a tailored nutrition and input strategy
Support on-farm integration and feeding approach
Ongoing reviews, seasonal adjustments, and tracking
" We stay involved. This isn't a one-off plan."
1,900 - 1,950 kgMS/ha
✓ Up from ~1,200 kgMS/ha
"You don't need to overhaul everything — you're just completing the diet."
— Graham Lamb, Waikato
Production at 88 Gates Farm in South Waikato now sits around 1,900–1,950kgMS/ha — up from closer to 1,200kgMS/ha in earlier years — with 390–400 cows and a two-thirds autumn-calving system.
The lift hasn’t come from dramatic change, but from steady system building. A feed pad, homegrown maize silage, and a well-balanced ration have created a more resilient, full-year operation.
Precision Feeding Drives Performance
At Braeburn Dairy in Mid Canterbury, contract milker Jake Coy has lifted production from 464kgMS/cow to a projected 555kgMS/cow over four seasons, while improving 6-week in-calf rates from 65% to 75%.
Key to this success has been a more deliberate approach to feeding. Working with Castlegate James, Jake adjusts meal blends throughout the season using milk urea data and herbage testing, matching protein and energy to cow demand and pasture conditions.
"This season, despite a slow spring, the cows responded really well — and there's still more milk in it."
— Braeburn Dairy, Canterbury
510 Cows → 450 Cows
~25% better profitability
Damian Roper isn’t pushing his system harder — he’s running it smarter.
After reducing cow numbers from 510 to 450, Damian lifted production by 22% and improved profitability by around 25%, all by refining how and when his cows are fed.
Farming 310 hectares in South Taranaki, Damian focuses on pasture first, supported by homegrown maize, chicory, turnips, and silage. Supplement is used strategically to lift performance, not fill gaps.
"We had the genetics. We just weren't feeding them to their potential."
— Damian Roper, Taranaki
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