How Good's Dairy
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.
Episodes
How Good's the Co-op | Richard Allen, Fonterra CEO
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
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
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
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
