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Hugh Edward

South Waikato dairy farmer from Putāruru, New Zealand, featured by DAIRY Country on his journey from sharemilking to owning two adjoining farms with wife Anna.

Sep 30, 2026

5:46
So tell me, Hugh, how did you start? What were you doing?
5:50
So, yeah, I started right back.
5:51
I was born on a dry stock farm, so never really milked cows until I stayed at my auntie and uncle's place.
5:56
And they had tractors and more exciting things on there than my parents had on their dairy grazing block.
6:02
So it kind of got me interested and got me going on milking cows.
6:06
And, yeah, basically once I got a full-time job, job I had a really good boss there too and it quickly progressed from farm assistant to contract milking to for that until he moved on his own farm so went elsewhere still trying to start finding a share milking job took me about three or four years to get a share milking job but I finally got one and that was next to Anna's place there so And after a couple of years of comparing notes, I suppose, we decided to join forces.
6:33
We waited for your contract to end up.
10:49
Tell me about what you're grazing then at that time because you use the crop, the oats.

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