Why choose us?

Intelact offers increasing levels of skill and a more sophisticated approach to farm management than ever before.

When compared to our international competitors, New Zealand dairy farmers live and work in one of the most difficult business environments in the world.  Three of the most critical factors influencing profitability are not in our favour, including:

1. Low milk price

2. High real cost of pasture due to high comparative land values

3. High cost of supplements

Opportunities to improve profitability from a ‘pasture only system’ offer little hope of providing the large lifts to profitability that many farmers are seeking due to the feed resource being set or finite.

The one statistically relevant proven factor that positively correlates with profitability is farm productivity.  Improvements to farm profitability will occur when milk production increases are achieved at a faster rate than operating and capital costs are increasing.  Increases in milk production per hectare, generated when lifts in stocking rate are combined with lifts in individual cow performance, is a significant contributor to increased profitability.

Pasture harvested per hectare also appears to be positively correlated with profitability.  The high cost of New Zealand pasture makes it particularly important to harvest increased quantities, which in turn reduces the average cost of pasture by spreading the fixed cost over more kilograms of dry-matter.

There is limited opportunity to achieve higher returns without the use of well planned and well managed supplementary feeding polices.  Supplements can be the key to reducing pressure on pasture during slow growth periods and as a result maintaining higher rates of re-growth.  They are also the key to profitably farming additional cows at higher levels of individual cow performance.