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SIDE Papers - 2012 Achieving High Levels of Reproductive Performance (Chris Burke and Hayden and Robyn Williams - PDF Format) BVD – What does it do and what can you do about it? (Andrew Weir - PDF Format) Changing NZ Dairy Farm Systems (Bruce Greig - PDF Format) Combating Summer Dry Conditions by Integrating Alternative Pasture and Crop Species Into The Farming System (David Chapman, Wayne Nichol, David Stevens, Julia Lee, Elena Minnee - PDF Format) Coming To A Catchment Near You (Sue Yerex - PDF Format) Employment Law - Are You Up To Date? (Mary-Jane Thomas - PDF Format) Feeding The Modern Dairy Cow: Is Pasture Still Enough? (John Roche and Jane Kay - PDF Format) Fertliser Innovations To Improve Efficiency (Dr Bert F Quin - PDF Format) Getting Sorted - Your Pathway to Success, Step By Step - Target Audience Younger People (Lynaire Ryan - PDF Format) Global Dairy Outlook - Show Me The Money! (Rabobank International - PDF Format) Health and Safety - Are You Up To Date? (Peter Verwey - PDF Format) How Did Fatigue Research Come About and What Are We Doing? (Rupert Tipples, Roberta Hill and Ken Wilson - PDF Format) How Much Can I Afford To Pay To Buy A Herd? (Matthew Newman and Paul Bird - PDF Format) How To Ensure A Drug and Alcohol Free Workplace (Matthew Beattie and John Carswell - PDF Format) Management of Herd Mating and Reproduction With Minimal Intervention (Jeremy Savage and Steve Garrett - PDF Format) Managing People Easy Peasy – "Being Organised and Making Use Of Tools" (Sarah Watson - PDF Format) Man Vs Machine - Automated Heat and Mastitis Detection (Jenny Jago, Brian Dela Rue and Claudia Kamphuis - PDF Format) Milk Response To Grain As Achieved By NZ Pasture Based Farmers (Howard de Klerk - PDF Format) Mineral Supplementation - Can It Be Kept Simple? (Justin Muschamp - PDF Format) New Zealand's Drinking Problem - The Declining Consumption of Milk (Lea Stening - PDF Format) Proper Bull Management Enhances Fertility (Brian Heydenrych - PDF Format) Quick Fix N Solutions? How Quick And How Economic? An Antidote (Mark Crawford and Greg Costello - PDF Format) Rearing High Performance Heifers (John Benefield - PDF Format) Stress Free Calf Rearing Requires Good Herd Health (Dr B.W. Schouten - PDF Format) Taking Pride In Your Farm Environment (Helen Gilder - PDF Format) The Perfect Cow (Denis Aitken - PDF Format) Valuing The Forage You Grow: Economic Indices For Pasture Cultivars (Jeremy Bryant, David Chapman1, William McMillan, Bruce Thorrold, Murray Willocks, David Green, Graham Kerr, Glenn Judson, Tim Cookson,Grant Edwards - PDF Format) Water Quality Management - Otago (Susie McKeague and John Threlfall - PDF Format) Who Are Our Future Farm Owners? (James Allen and Ciaran Tully - PDF Format) Wintering Cows In Southland - At What Financial Cost? (Dawn Dalley - PDF Format) Wintering System Performance - What Do You Need To Know To Achieve Your Farm Systems Targets? (Dawn Dalley, Tessa Geddes, Ina Pinxterhuis, Jane Chrystal, Tash Styles - PDF Format)

SIDE Papers - 2011 Wintering systems – factors to consider when evaluating success (Dawn Dalley - PDF Format) Highly profitable Canterbury farm systems, a farmer’s perspective (Leo Donkers, Alan Davie-Martin, David Lister - PDF Format) Steps to Wealth Creation in the NZ dairy industry (Lynaire Ryan - PDF Format) Better productivity through investing in your people (Sarah Watson - PDF Format) Calf rearing – the ten demandments (Bas Schouten - PDF Format) How do dairy co-operatives grow for farmers’ benefit? (Desiree Reid - PDF Format) Global staffing (Challenge your future) (Karen Justice - PDF Format) My thoughts and experience as an overseas employee on a New Zealand dairy farm (Neil Molina - PDF Format) Slick operators: The art of time management on a busy farm (Jeremy Duckmanton & Terry Kilday - PDF Format) Understanding milking cow mineral requirements (Andrew Sykes - PDF Format) Employment Law (Sean O’Sullivan - PDF Format) Dairy shelter on the Canterbury plains (Cath Goulter - PDF Format) Evaluating OAD milking: The low-cost future farming system (Colin Holmes - PDF Format) Milking 5,000 cows OAD successfully on Rakaia Island (David & Margaret Turner, Doug & Helen Turner - PDF Format) Successful OAD systems on a difficult farm (John & Kath Saywell - PDF Format) Research in the industry – where is your money invested? (Bruce Thorrold - PDF Format) Dairy Farming with reduced inductions (Marvin Pangborn & Bernice Mangnall - PDF Format) Wet weather management – managing soil to promote maximum production and minimal damage (David Houlbrooke & Seth Laurenson - PDF Format) Wet weather management (Hayden Kendrick - PDF Format) Incorporating grain into the system (David Chapman - PDF Format) Wintering dairy cows on fodder beet (Jim Gibbs - PDF Format) Future farming systems (Dave Clarke - PDF Format) ETS – where are we at? (Nicky Wagner - PDF Format) Use it or lose it: Put those nutrients to work (Jessie Chan - PDF Format) Improving irrigation efficiency (Annabel Craw - PDF Format) The ‘perfect cow’ (Denis Aitken - PDF Format) What perennial ryegrass should you sow? (Grant Edwards - PDF Format) Milksmart: What makes a farm dairy efficient? (Jenny Jago - PDF Format) Practical solutions to manage spring feed (Phillipa Hedley - PDF Format) 10 plus 1 characteristics of a winner (David Todd - PDF Format) Farm dairy effluent management (Jeremy Burgess - PDF Format) Understanding financial statements (Frazer Weir - PDF Format) Are you prepared? Managing the risks associated with losing your partner (Michelle Wilson - PDF Format)

SIDE Papers - 2010 The use of dispute resolution procedures in dairy disputes (Penny Mudford & Damien Pine - PDF Format) Body condition score 5 - an old wives' tale or the foundation for profit (Dr. John Roche - PDF Format) Steps to wealth creation in the New Zealand dairy industry (Lynaire Ryan - PDF Format) Capturing on-farm innovation to work smarter, not harder (Corrigan & Ruth Sowman - PDF Format) Working on the business rather than in it, in order to grow your dairy business  (Ciaran & Sarah Tully - PDF Format) How to build an effective team on farm (Tony Watson - PDF Format) An incalf perspective of reproductive performance at the Lincoln University dairy farm (Mark Blackwell, Steve Lee & Chris Burke - PDF Format) Finding a better way: A collaborative approach to farm dairy effluent management (Rachael Millar, David Houlbrooke & Penny Nelson - PDF Format) Calf rearing - the old, the new and what works (Dr B.W. Schouten - PDF Format) Where do the top farms in the region fit? Review of southern dairy farm systems - May 2010 (Stephen Lee - PDF Format) Don't treat your soils like dirt! (A.H.C. Roberts - PDF Format) Farm risk: The human factor (Cecilia Farrow - PDF Format) Shorter milking times (Jenny Jago & Jennie Burke - PDF Format) Dairy companies, co-operatives and transvestites (Keith Woodford - PDF Format) It is too late to prepare when opportunity arrives (Brendon Harrex - PDF Format) Stocking the farm to maximise profit and how to manage the risks (Kevin Macdonald & Phillipa Hedley - PDF Format) High input dairy farming in New Zealand: A licence to print money? (Dr Les Sandles - PDF Format) The dream is free - the journey has a cost (Alvin & Judith Reid - PDF Format) Steps to success (Daniel Woolsey - PDF Format) Growing successful brassica crops - and what about fodder beet? (Warwick Scott & Shane Maley - PDF Format) The art of delegation (Mike O'Connor - PDF Format) The truth of organic farming milk processing and marketting as I see it (Robin Greer - PDF Format) New Zealand dairy farm debt (Bruce Greig - PDF Format) Achieving wintering targets - critical success factors for different wintering systems in Southland (D.E. Dalley - PDF Format) Marketing issues from climate change: Carbon footprinting, lifecycle analysis and food (Professor Caroline Saunders - PDF Format)

SIDE Papers - 2009 50/50 Sharemilking Automatic Milking - One Year after it's Commercial Debut in New Zealand Biotechnologies for Resilience Collection, Analysis and USe of Information on Farm DNA Proven Bulls: Application of Genonmic Technology Benchmarking: Key Drivers for a Successful Dairy Business A Comparison of Sharemilking and Equity Management as Pathways to Farm Ownership Effluent Best Practice Equity Management 101 Hours of Work: Five and Two, How the System Works InCalf - A Case Study of a Farmer Action Group in Canterbury Nutritional Problems in South Island Dairying Once a Day Milking Organic Farming and Processing Phosphorus Fertilizer Requirements of High Producing Dairy Pastures Research: What is New? Shortcuts to Progressiion Shorter Milking Secrets Steps to Wealth Creation in the New Zealand Dairy Industry Stocking Rate and Calving Date Decisions for Dairy Farms Technologies for Measuring Grass and Crops The Importance of Cost Control "Unsafe Today", Statistic Tomorrow Water Catchment Wellbring - Aorere Water Efficiency What is the Best Cow to Buy? Why People with Coaches Make Faster Progress Keynote: Head Long into the Global Economic Storm Keynote: The Orange Roughy Story - Globalisation and Branding Keynote: Investing Principles and a Case Study

SIDE Papers - 2008 Am I working "on' the business or "on" it? Automatic milking is here .... so is it time to get out of the shed? Better the odds Calf to cups - rearing heifers from waening to calving Carbon footprints, life cycle analysis, food miles - global trade trends and markets issues Collection, analysis and use of information on the farm Converting your farm to dairying Clydevale Clinton Quality Employers Group Getting the best from your support land - tips for allocating winter forages How to find and keep good staff Keeping mentally healthy Lame cows Low application effluent management Making immigrant employment work for you? Milking machines and mastitis - sorting fact from fiction More staff - more profit Profitable low input systems - separating the myth from the magic Progression to farm ownership Sex down on the farm - will using teaser bulls lower my empty rate? Southland Monitor Farm Project Supplements and body condition Sustainability and practice on dairy support land 30 years of Ruakura research: what does it mean for Southland? What employers have to look at to get the best out of people

SIDE Papers - 2007 Immigration - Find and keep the skilled migrants you need Practical tips on managing staff from different cultures Capturing on-farm innovation to work smarter not harder Extending lactation to 670 days Heifer mastitis Dairybase - Online, on time and on track Working smarter not harder in the dairy shed Investing outside of dairying Setting the standards so today's staff are with us tomorrow Whole farm manual Interactive feed wedge workshop Getting started - the 1st $50 000 Pasture monitoring technologies Spring hunger pains Lameness: Healthy Hoof Project on Farm Heifers: The dollars and sense of rearing them well Successful reproductive performance with nil inductions Nutient management in the LUDF: Nutient budgeting for efficent production When starting up a business, what can you do to keep an accountant happy Employment agreements and good employment practices Fertility in New Zealand dairy herds Developing an effective management plan for meetin target levels of reproductive performance Palm kernel, grain or silage: Which is best? Clean, green and profitable What is the best career progreesion option: Equity manager or 50/50 sharemilking Lincoln University Dairy Farm What makes a successful farmer - a wife? Performance management Milk production, body condition score and reproduction responses to supplementation in grazing dairy cows The South Island Dairy Lameness Group Irrigation efficiencies Operating the dairy farm business for profit What lies ahead? Looking at costs and sustainability for the future

SIDE Papers - 2006 A successful career in dairy farming - is it still possible Achieving high performance from a range of farm systems in the South Island AlternAspects of dairying in South Americaative pathways Aspects of dairying in South AmericaAspects of dairying in South America Breeding good producers Calf rearing Deciphering the letterbox grass species leaflets Electronic heat detection Fact or Fiction. How do I know who is telling truth Generation Y Leading the team Maintaining animal health Managing winter forage crops sustainably Managing your soil to maximise profit and protect the environment Manipulating cow diets to reduce nutrient wastage to the environment ME in Southland vs Production Optimizing fertiliser use efficiency on the dairy farm Power of the positive - David Holdaway Power of the positive - Simon Hopcroft Satellite grass monitoring Starting new employees on a positive foot Stop your spring feed pinch becoming a punch Sustain-a-bull mating management Technology in the cowshed Ten key factors to maintaining a happy workplace Using ryegrass technology for profit We are about safety, is compliance just the bonus Wintering systems for the south Women achieving in farming

SIDE Papers - 2005 Alternative pathways for progression Body Condition Score 5 - An old wives tale or the foundation for profit Building a team - the seven mistakes most poeple make and how to avoid them Calf rearing - a review of the prevention and treatments of disease of this valuable calf Explore your future with the Dexcel Whole Farm Model Finding and using a mentor Foreign workers on dairy farms Future foods How much feed is in the paddock - How much should I give them How to be compliant and remain sane I am a great employer - Yeah Right Innovate or stagnate. Applying business innovation methods on-farm Is your irrigation system up to scratch Lincoln University Dairy Farm - now a cropping farm Making the spring feed plan work Managing heifer mastitis - the hows and whys Novel grazing management options Physical lameness Reducing energy use on a dairy farm Runoffs - control but at what cost The changing nature of GM plants The Dairy Farmers Consumers Institute The Nutrient Management project Transition Cow nutrition - priming your herd to perform Using Nitrogen - what is best practice What to do if your neighbour says you stink When all else fails read the manual

SIDE Papers - 2004 Alternative crops suitable for dairy land in southern New Zealand A-taxing the farmers Black and white answers on the modern dairy cow Break the cycle to let them cycle Clean and green with eco-n Dairy green - Alternative dairy effluent application methods - A MAF sustainable farming fund project Do plants respond to Invercargill Show Day Does your farm work for you or do you work for the farm Employment law - getting it right first time Environmentally friendly silage management Headaches and heart disease are not caused by aspirin deficiency Hedging the best bet, or just betting How big is too big How to feed the 500kg cow How to pick the best apple Influence of high levels of water-soluble carbohydrates in grass-based diets on production and pollution by ruminant livestock Lincoln University Dairy Farms drive to a profitable business in a lower payout environment Lower Mastitis SCC Methane. Is it hot air Natural progression - farming in harmony Priming your tank Strategies for dealing with stress Promoting dairy farming - why, to whom, and how making dairy farming the career change of choice Rearing qulaity heifers - then watch them milk Staff - How do other industries do it Techno Pot - The genetics game The coaching approach a catalyst to staff retention, improved performance and a dairy farming career The cost of wintering in Southland Valuing your community, business, families and working lives

SIDE Papers - 2003 Brassica wintering for dairy cows - overcoming the challenges Calf rearing using a once-a-day milk feeding system - what can the diary industry learm from the bull beef industy Canterburys irrigation water resource Cost effective butt covering - understanding changes in the local insurance market Cost effective minerals Cost effective minerals - a farmers view Dairying and the environment Dont treat soil like dirt Effective meetings Effective supplement use Effective team meetings Efficient milking - Taking the drag out of it Endophytes that cows like to eat Equity partnerships - lessons learned Equity partnerships - valuable lessons part 1 Feed budgeting made easier Feedplan. A computer workshop for non-users Getting the bangs for your fertiliser bucks Keeping your team healthy Keys to unlocking a better life from dairy farming ME or DM 4 NRG - how does pasture and forage quality impact on intake and cow performance Milk - a food, a cosmetic, and a medicine Milking the leaner cash cow Nitrogen - Is it a SIDE issue No induction, No CIDRs, No problem People productivity Performance management to incorporate the values of your business Plan your future - Going ahead with confidence Shelter improves dairy production Shelter improves dairy production - Peter Smail Striking a balance - Managing people and managing growth Where our future farm staff are coming from Where there is muck there is money

SIDE Papers - 2002 An environmentally friendly dairy farm Attracting and retaining staff Automatic Milking in New Zealand fact or fantasy Best use of time Biotechnology - creating a healthy farming future Building teams Calf rearing Creative accounting Debate - low input dairying Debate- High v low input dairying Developing performance management systems Dreams to reality Efficient time management Effluent technologies Environmental Research on the New Lincoln University Dairy Farm Environmentally friendly fertiliser management Farm management systems Farming with little capital Financial Future forages for South Island Dairying Future ownership options High input farming Lactowhat Lease or buy Minerals - do they measure up Planting and landscaping in dairy farm environments Preventing Milk Fever - Are all Magnesium Sources Equal Project analysis allocation of capital Report on Holstein Friesian Strain Trial - Year One of Farmlet Stage First Lactation Riaparian management benefits to water quality Spring cereal crops for silage Sustainability Sustainable innovative wintering The future Tomorrows cow Trigger levels for utilising feed Wages to self employed Whole crop cereal silage

SIDE Papers - 2001 1What do SI dairy farmers want out of the new Lincoln University dairy farm A comparison of strains within breeds for SI dairying A farmers perspective of achieving the 4 percent A pathway forward Anoestrous treatments and resynchronising for mating Building your business team Business structures - 300 cow farm Calf rearing Can you be a dairy farmer and have a life Environmental issues and opportunities Farming cycles - opportunities taken Financial health - advanced business structures Financial health - how do you measure up Financial health - The first step Harnessing business opportunities I Thought She Was Pregnant- Unfolding the Mystery behind the Long Return Interval New Zealand Dairy cow Irrigation - options and considerations Lower cost land Machinery - investment considerations Managing fertility in the NZ dairy herd Managing seasonal pricing - shoulder milk Managing seasonal pricing and shoulder milk Motivate your team Non-cycling Cows, Hormones and Production - Is Feeding the Answer Nutritional effects on lameness People matter People productivity Productivity vs growth Reproductive Physiology and Management of High-Yielding Dairy Cattle Role of Bovine MHC Genes in Resistance to Mastitis The Irish experience Trace elements - exploding the myths Unlimited potential for improving productivity What do SI dairy farmers want out of the new Lincoln University dairy farm Wisely investing your share of the 1.1 billion

SIDE Papers - 2000 Change our attitudes or we are out of farming Climbing the ladder - one rung at a time Communication - its a two-way process Cruising cyberspace - how to get what you want on the net Environmental impacts of wintering systems Equity farming Equity share-farming Farming without CIDRs and inductions Fast healthy food tips financial fitness - how can you measure up Getting the right buzz from stress How much pasture can we really grow Milk of the future Natural remedies for dairy cows Nitrogen - for thinking farmers only Once-a-day milking - possible and profitable Organics - where does it fit in self contained vs alternatives Size does matter size does matter - bigger is better South Island 2005 Stocking rate for optimum profit The easiest extra production you will ever get Understanding biotechnology and genetic engineering What do staff look for when choosing employers Who comes first - the farm or me Who motivates the motivator

SIDE Papers - 1999 Characteristics of successful business people Is Retirement An Option Under Your Control John Penno Lactation curves for SI pasture growth patterns Milking systems - future options Research review and directions Richard Wright Supplementing milkers The Next Step The next step for me Why don't men listen