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Are you milking the most of your opportunities?

Independent · Whole-farm · Pasture-led

How it works

Advisory + tech, at every step.

Assess

Farm walk with you and the team. We look at covers, soils, herd condition, the dairy shed, and the books. We pull in your MINDA records, Insights Report, and last season's accounts to set a real baseline.

Plan

One whole-farm plan that protects cost of production. Pasture rotation, feed budget, fert plan, mating decisions, debt position — sequenced for the season ahead with clear decision gates.

Execute

Two-paddock trials, not whole-farm gambles. The platform tracks covers, leaf emergence, supplement use, and kgMS — flagging when something's off rotation before the wedge tells you the hard way.

Prove

Before/after on cost of production, kgMS, and emissions intensity. One report your bank manager actually reads, your processor accepts for the Co-operative Difference, and your team can stand behind.

Are you milking the most of your opportunities?

Word of mouth

From the cowshed, not the boardroom.

Whole-farm soil baseline showed we were blanket-applying N across the whole rotation — same rate on paddocks coming out of a clover phase as ones following barley. We pulled it back using FAR's nitrogen calculator: one season, $26k off the fert bill, feed wheat yield up 0.4t/ha. The bank got a cost-of-production number per tonne it could actually work with.

Arable Farm • Canterbury
310ha effective • Cereals & ryegrass seed • United Wheatgrowers
$26k
Saved on N yr 1
0.4
t/ha yield lift

What sets us apart‍

Groundshift vs the usual approach

Typical Providers

  • Fert / feed reps, scheme partners
  • One product line at a time
  • Whole-farm switch on faith
  • Replaced or talking past each other
  • You stitch it together each season
  • Anecdotes and last year's accounts

Groundshift

  • Independent, no products to sell
  • Pasture · Soils · Herd · Financials
  • Two-paddock trials with decision gates
  • Vet, nutritionist, consultant — coordinated
  • Co-op Difference & LWP-ready
  • Cost-of-production proof, defensible plan

Straight Answers

Things farmers actually ask.

If your question isn't here, ring us. Real person, real number: 0800 GROUND (476 863).

Yes. The data we collect (emissions intensity, water, animal welfare, biodiversity actions) maps directly onto Fonterra's Te Pūtake / Te Puku / Te Tihi tiers, plus the Mars and Nestlé-funded Emissions Excellence payment. Synlait Lead With Pride and Open Country premium tiers use a similar framework. We package it for whichever processor you supply.

The 2050 biogenic methane target was revised to 14–24% below 2017, and farm-level methane pricing is off the table. That doesn't make emissions data unimportant — your processor and your bank both want it now. We give you the inventory and the improvement story without the lecture.

No. We're outcome-led, not ideology-led. NZ's pasture-based system is already one of the most efficient in the world — we're not trying to change the model, we're trying to get more out of it. If a regen practice makes sense on your farm, great. If conventional N timing works better, that's what we'll recommend. The only test is what holds margin.

Designed to work alongside them, not replace them. Most dairy farms already have a vet, a nutritionist, a farm consultant, a fert rep, and a banker. GroundShift brings the whole-farm view and coordinates one plan everyone can back. Existing relationships usually get stronger because the conversations stop talking past each other.

Now is usually fine. We sequence the work around your season — assessment in the shoulder months, trial paddocks chosen so they don't disrupt mating or peak production. Most farmers start with a farm walk, get the baseline back in 3–4 weeks, and have decisions to act on before the next planning window.

We use OverseerFM where it's required and supplement it with paddock-level soil data. The plan is built to your regional council's freshwater rules and the upcoming RMA changes — not against them. You get one set of numbers that works for your council, your processor, and your bank.

The whole approach is built to protect production while we shift inputs. Two-paddock trials prove a change before it touches the rest of the farm. If kgMS slips outside agreed tolerance at a decision gate, we adjust — before it shows up in the milk cheque.

Ready when you are

Start with a farm walk and a cup of tea.

One visit. Whole decision team. We walk the paddocks with you between rounds, sit down with the books, and within a few weeks deliver a whole-farm baseline — covers, soils, kgMS, cost of production. No commitment beyond the first conversation.

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