The New Zealand Dairy Goat Benchmarking Project has been developed for Dairy Goat Cooperative (N.Z.) to support dairy goat farmers to improve business performance. The project provides benchmarking and farm performance analysis to dairy goat farmers to help farmers to identify key drivers of their businesses and areas for improvement.
Now in its third year, the project has delivered full business analysis reports for farmers, as well as webinars and workshops. An analysis of 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons has been completed and the 2024/25 season analysis is underway.
The Red Sky Farm Performance Analysis software was adapted for dairy goat farm systems. Individual goat dairy farm analysis is now available to all dairy goat farmers (excludes Dairy Goat Cooperative generated benchmarks).
The project was funded by Dairy Goat Co-operative (N.Z.) Limited and the New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries as part of the Caprine Innovations NZ Food and Fibre Futures partnership programme.