Just Teachers - Resources for Dairy Farming
Teachers, did you make your own unit or activity or lesson plan for this field trip?
If so please email it to us and we will add it to this section, with or without credit to you - your choice.
Teachers, if you are stuck for ideas, then this is the page to visit to see what other teachers are doing or have done.
Answers to Questions Posed in the Video Captions
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
Contributions
- Dairy Farming Primer. Captioned images from the background pages, packaged in a convenient PDF which you can show to your students as a slideshow, or print it out to put in your reading area - PDF (1.39Mb)
Downloads
DairyNZ have produced two seasonal checklists of tasks for dairy farmers:
Links
http://www.dairynz.co.nz/page/pageid/2145916777/FarmFacts
This section of the DairyNZ website has a large number of Farm Facts sheets that are available for download (PDF format)
http://www.techhistory.co.nz/OntheLand/Dairy.htm
This website gives a great history of dairy farming in New Zealand
http://www.getfresh.co.nz/
Information on careers in the dairy industry
http://www.lic.co.nz/lic_20072008_Dairy_Stats.cfm
Check out this website for downloadable statistics about dairy farming
http://www.niwascience.co.nz/edu/resources/climate/
NIWA's climate website. Lots of climate data for all regions of New Zealand
http://www.ew.govt.nz/Audiences/For-farmers/#Heading2
Environment Waikato website with information about environmental issues and solutions for dairy farming in the Waikato
http://www.biotechlearn.org.nz/focus_stories/robotic_milking
Information on robotic milking at the Biotechnology Learning Hub
PDF documents: To view or print out PDF documents you will need the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Reader. This is available for free from the Adobe website.
