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Speaker 1: Dairy and zed State of the Dairy Nation Report twenty

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Speaker 1: four to twenty five season. They have produced the most

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Speaker 1: milk ever twenty one billion liters, export earnings highest ever

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Speaker 1: twenty seven billion. Karl Dene fed Farmer's dairy chair with

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Speaker 1: us this morning, Morning, Carl Morning, Ryan Worth celebrating.

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Speaker 2: Definitely worth celebrating. So that performance on dairy farms is

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Speaker 2: continuing to increase, and by the looks of the report,

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Speaker 2: also profitability which flows through to what this government needs,

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Speaker 2: which is tax revenue.

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Speaker 1: The increase the production per cow is interesting. Can you

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Speaker 1: explain how we're getting more out of them?

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Speaker 2: So every year we get slightly better production per cow

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Speaker 2: just through due to genetics and due to the fact

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Speaker 2: that farmers are constantly refining their practices and getting the

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Speaker 2: most that they can efficiency wise out of animals and

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Speaker 2: out of the well, making sure they're not using any

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Speaker 2: more input inputs.

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Speaker 1: So the herd testing, how important is that to making

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Speaker 1: sure that you know if you're testing the herd and

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Speaker 1: then you're mating with the right size.

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Speaker 2: So it's very important that farmers have the most data

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Speaker 2: possible to make those decisions. So the idea herd testing

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Speaker 2: is knowing exactly what the production of h cow is

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Speaker 2: and therefore being able to make that cow to the

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Speaker 2: best sire to make sure that you get the best offs.

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Speaker 1: One makes sense. So this is genetics, this is data.

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Speaker 1: How does our efficiency how does your output per cow

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Speaker 1: compare to the rest of the world.

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Speaker 2: So our output per cow doesn't look great compared to

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Speaker 2: the rest of the world because we are one of

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Speaker 2: the only countries in the world that are on a

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Speaker 2: pasture based system and our only carve once a year.

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Speaker 2: So for that sort of system, were doing very well.

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Speaker 2: But there's only about three countries in the world that

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Speaker 2: really do that well, and New Songs the leader of those.

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Speaker 1: That's also why I milk so good though, right it is.

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Speaker 2: Indeed why a milk is some of the best in

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Speaker 2: the world.

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Speaker 1: Car appreciate your time and congratulations. This morning Caldene fed

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