DairyNZ – finding practical solutions

DairyNZ supports the farming sector by investing in research, resource development, extension and advocacy to ensure sustainable dairy farming and food production.

This video provides an introduction to some of the big questions DairyNZ’s farmers and scientists are working to answer.

Transcript

Ben Fisher

Climate change is making things more unpredictable.

Dr Ina Pinxterhuis

Nitrogen has been increasing in our waterways.

Holly Flay

Methane is playing a role in global warming.

Dr Elena Minnée

Anything we do in a big way does have an impact on the environment.

Dr Ina Pinxterhuis

If we have more and more summer droughts, some of our pasture species, like perennial ryegrass, don’t persist very well any more.

Holly Flay

We need to play our part in the dairy industry to help reduce emissions.

Ben Fisher

It’s important for me as a farmer to mitigate our impacts.

Dr Ina Pinxterhuis

We all want clean waterways. Farmers are fishermen, farmer families are swimming.

Holly Flay

But we also need to do it so that we can still feed the world.

Ben Fisher

DairyNZ is conducting a lot of research. DairyNZ’s role here is to ask those tough questions.

Dr Ina Pinxterhuis

We’re looking at animals, we’re looking at forages and other solutions that work on farm that are practical.

Kieran McCahon

Farmers have a huge role in driving the questions that we want to answer within science.

Dr Elena Minnée

There’s a lot of forward-thinking farmers that try these things before we do.

Holly Flay

There’s just so much that needs to be discovered so that we can help the environment and feed the world so that we’ve got a future to matter.

Acknowledgements Ben Fisher Dr Ina Pinxterhuis Holly Flay Dr Elena Minnée Kieran McCahon Grace Gibberd DairyNZ Wide shot of research barn with feeding stalls at Lye Farm, courtesy of Just the Job.

Acknowledgement

This resource has been produced with the support of DairyNZ.