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  1. Analysis of adoption trends of in-parlor technologies over a 10-year period for labor saving and data capture on pasture-based dairy farms
  2. Opportunities for improving the safety of dairy parlor workers
  3. Impact of winter fodder beet or kale allocation on body condition score gain and early lactation performance of dairy cows
  4. Short communication: Technologies and milking practices that reduce hours of work and increase flexibility through milking efficiency in pasture-based dairy farm systems
  5. A comparison of profitability between farms that milk once or twice a day
  6. New Zealand dairy farmers preference investments in automation technology over decision-support technology
  7. Establishment of plantain into existing pastures
  8. Short communication: Milk fat payment affects the relative profitability of Jersey and Holstein-Friesian cows at optimal comparative stocking rate
  9. Comparison of milk production and herd characteristics in New Zealand herds milked once or twice a day
  10. Addressing complex challenges using a co-innovation approach: Lessons from five case studies in the New Zealand primary sector
  11. A survey of dairy cow wintering practices in Canterbury, New Zealand
  12. Effect of omitting teat preparation on bacterial levels in bulk tank milk
  13. Getting the most out of advanced farm management technologies: roles of technology suppliers and dairy industry organisations in supporting precision dairy farmers
  14. Evaluating rates of technology adoption and milking practices on New Zealand dairy farms
  15. Estimation of genetic and crossbreeding parameters of milking characteristics of grazing dairy cows
  16. Principles for maximising operator efficiency and return on investment in rotary dairies
  17. Analysis of milking characteristics in New Zealand dairy cows
  18. Milking efficiency of swingover herringbone parlours in pasture-based dairy systems
  19. Overmilking causes deterioration in teat-end condition of dairy cows in late lactation
  20. Milking efficiency for grazing dairy cows can be improved by increasing automatic cluster remover thresholds without applying premilking stimulation
  21. Short-term application of prestimulation and increased automatic cluster remover threshold affect milking characteristics of grazing dairy cows in late lactation
  22. Large rotary dairies achieve high cow throughput but are not more labour efficient than medium-sized rotaries
  23. Milking parlour size, pre-milking routine and stage of lactation affect efficiency of milking in single-operator herringbone parlours
  24. Increasing platform speed and the percentage of cows completing a second rotation improves throughput in rotary dairies