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Dawn Dalley

Dawn Dalley

Senior Scientist at DairyNZ (farm systems research) and key contributor to the Southern Dairy Hub demonstration farm in Southland, New Zealand.

Sep 10, 2026

8:35
you will have grown, they will have had access to a bit more grass because the lower stocking rate.
8:40
Yeah.
8:41
So I guess one of the shortfalls we've got in terms of our data is we weren't doing regular pre- and post-graze measurements under the demonstration model.
8:51
So we don't have a good estimate of the amount of pasture that they consumed.
8:56
And we're just working through looking at calculating that by back calculation to get an indication of how much pasture each of the farmlets were consuming.
9:07
We did grow more grass in the future farmlet.
9:12
And we put that down to a couple of things.

8 MINS LATER

17:26
Can you talk us through some of the changes that you made following the previous season's spring? So you did make some changes to how you've been feeding the animals, et cetera, body conditions goal-wise and all of that.

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