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How Good's Dairy

Red Nine Studios 4 Episodes Oct 11, 2026

This podcast celebrates dairy farming and the people behind it. Hosts George Dodson and Conan Moynihan talk with farmers, experts, and industry folk about one topic per episode, from soil health to calf rearing. It offers practical farm advice, real stories from the paddock, and plenty of laughs. Produced in New Zealand, the show explores just how good dairy can be.

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How Good's Your Udder Health | Natasha Maguire, Farm Medix Oct 11, 2026 37:10 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 c

How Good's Tech | Ash des Landes, Canterbury Sharemilker Oct 4, 2026 33:31 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 trea

How Good's Your Soil - Canaan Ahu, Agrownomics Sep 27, 2026 36:43 Canaan Ahu of Agrownomics on soil biology, nitrogen, compaction and carbon, and why the best soil test starts with a spade. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How Good's Beef on Dairy | Ben Watson, GENEZ Sep 21, 2026 34:05 Beef over dairy is the fastest-growing decision on a New Zealand dairy farm — and most of it gets made in about three seconds, standing behind a cow at mating.George Dodson sits down with Ben Watson, co-founder of GENEZ and a dairy farmer of close to thirty years, to work out what putting beef over your dairy cows actually does to the bottom line. Conan's away this week, so producer Andy Rowe take

How Good's Year One - First Season On Your Own Farm Sep 13, 2026 34:03 George is a season into milking his own cows, and he's already doing things his own way: a colostrum mob that never goes behind a wire, and a breeding rule with no science behind it at all. From there it's the ideal cow for a wet, heavy farm, why Conan gets a bit miffed at being called a regenerative consultant, the three legs of the stool on compaction, why effluent ends up in the wrong paddock o

How Good's the Co-op | Richard Allen, Fonterra CEO Sep 6, 2026 50:14 Fonterra CEO Richard Allen on what the co-op actually does with your milk, how the milk price is really set, and why New Zealand dairy farmers are the envy of the world. Dairy's good — how good? Let's find out. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How Good's Nutrition | Shaun Balemi, myCOW Aug 30, 2026 42:36 Feed is the biggest controllable cost on most dairy farms, and the easiest place to quietly lose money. George Dodson and Conan Moynihan sit down with dairy nutritionist Shaun Balemi (myCOW) on feeding efficiency: fillers vs concentrates, early vs late lactation, palm kernel and protein, what rumination data is really telling you, and what nutrition does to in-calf rates. Plus why a hungry cow is

How Good's Calving | Karen Fraser, The Calf Experts Aug 23, 2026 33:45 Calving is relentless. And the decisions that shape an animal's entire life get made in the middle of it, thirty seconds at a time.Karen Fraser has reared calves through just about every version of this job — from converting a Hawke's Bay potato farm to 1,500 cows in the early 2000s, to running young stock on Rakaia Island and Woodstock Farms, to teaching people who'd never touched an animal how t

How Good's Dairy? Meet Conan & George Aug 4, 2026 9:55 Welcome to How Good's Dairy — the podcast that celebrates dairy farming and the people behind it. In this first episode, George Dodson (Young Farmer of the Year winner and Canterbury dairy farmer) and Conan Moynihan (Groundshift co-founder, agribusiness coach and Kellogg Scholar) introduce themselves, share why they started the show, and set out what's coming: one topic at a time, unpacked with fa

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