Saving peat with a barn: A barn housing 1000 Holstein Friesian cows won the 2023 Waikato Regional Supreme Award at the Ballance Farm Environment Awards, for its commitment to productive genetic gain and precision effluent management. Sheryl Haitana...

Saving peat with a barn: A barn housing 1000 Holstein Friesian cows won the 2023 Waikato Regional Supreme Award at the Ballance Farm Environment Awards, for its commitment to productive genetic gain and precision effluent management. Those genetics have shown their true value since the cows moved into the barn system, Arjun says. Sheryl Haitana visited the three siblings who are the fifth generation of the Singh family dairy farming in New Zealand "We were System 5 before the cows went in the barn and the cows were producing 500kg MS/cow, now they're producing 750kg MS/cow. [Extracted from the article]