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How Good's Dairy

How Good's Dairy

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The podcast that celebrates dairy farming and the people behind it. Hosts George Dodson (Young Farmer of the Year winner, dairy farming the family farm in Leeston) and Conan Moynihan (Groundshift co-founder, agribusiness coach and Kellogg Scholar) sit down with farmers, experts and industry folk to dig into one topic at a time, from soil health and nutrition to calf rearing and everything in between. Practical advice you can take back to the farm, real stories from the paddock, and plenty of laughs along the way. Because dairy's good..... but how good?

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Episodi
  • How Good’s Spring | George Dodson & Conan Moynihan

    How Good’s Spring | George Dodson & Conan Moynihan
    Oct 18 2026
    Calving’s nearly done, mating’s a week away and the grass is going gangbusters. George and Conan catch up on what mid-October really looks like on George’s Canterbury dairy farm.

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    25 min
  • How Good's Your Udder Health | Natasha Maguire, Farm Medix

    How Good's Your Udder Health | Natasha Maguire, Farm Medix
    Oct 11 2026

    Mastitis microbiologist Natasha Maguire on subclinical cases, cell count, antibiotics and bought-in heifers, and why the answer starts with testing before you treat.


    00:00 Coming up 00:28 How good's dairy? 00:47 Meet Natasha and how it all started 03:11 What is mastitis? 04:17 Finding subclinical mastitis: herd tests and RMT 04:58 What somatic cell count actually measures 06:33 Why test every case 07:56 What the bugs tell you about your farm 08:56 Benchmarking your herd's udder health 11:27 When the cell count spikes 12:47 Guessing is expensive: the teat spray trap 14:08 Can teat spray damage teats? 14:58 George's farm: where to start with bought-in cows 16:28 Fresh cow procedures and the first four days 18:05 What's really behind early-season mastitis 19:28 Next steps: just test 21:33 Antibiotics and selective dry cow 24:27 When there's nothing to treat 26:14 Prevention: buying in cows and heifers 28:08 Teat spraying done properly 31:16 Staph aureus: the big one 33:32 Culling, cell count and "it's not the farmer" 34:50 Don't wait, find out 35:52 Takeaways 36:43 Where to find Natasha

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    37 min
  • How Good's Tech | Ash des Landes, Canterbury Sharemilker

    How Good's Tech | Ash des Landes, Canterbury Sharemilker
    Oct 4 2026
    Ash des Landes and his wife are 50/50 sharemilkers on the Canterbury Plains, milking 650 cows at Dunsandel and, from this season, another 585 near Leeston. That's 1,200 cows producing around 600,000 kg of milk solids. In this episode George and Conan dig into the technology behind that operation and what it has actually changed on farm: Culturing mastitis samples in the farm office before treating. Antibiotic use is substantially down, the bulk cell count is holding around 110,000, and Staph cows at dry-off went from as many as 20 to zero. Virtual fencing collars. The fuel bill has halved, lameness is down, the team spends less time on motorbikes, and kale and pasture breaks are shifted several times a day. How Ash weighs up what a piece of tech is worth, and how he gets a young team using it properly. Why the tech is what let the family take on a second farm without giving up time together. Ash's take: we all do effectively the same thing; what separates the good from the best is the timing of the decisions we make.

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    34 min
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