The Dairy Wizard consists of three sections: Housing, Parlour and Slurry.
It allows you to look at the cost implications of a range of housing options, look at existing milk routines and parlour options as well as identify adequate slurry storage strategies. It also contains the housing report Housing the 21st Century cow.
Prepared with NVZ regulations and rising fertiliser costs in mind, Slurry Wizard will help dairy farmers considering upgrading or replacing slurry storage, allowing them to work out their storage requirements and weigh up the cost benefits of different ways to tackle under-capacity.
Housing the 21st Century Cow allows farmers to select - and fully cost - the perfect dairy housing design to suit their production system, climate and labour availability while meeting the latest environmental and welfare standards.
And for farmers considering replacing or upgrading milking equipment and facilities the Parlour Wizard allows different parlour types and functionality to be compared and costed based on individual farm data including cow numbers, labour availability and input costs.