Customer-funded on-farm solutions are available to all farmers who achieve any level of Fonterra's Co-operative Difference in the 2025/26 season
Funding is available for a range of options designed to help you monitor and improve herd health and productivity.
LIC herd improvement services that are available for a payment of up to $1,500 depending on activity include:
Fourth herd test
Funding for your fourth herd test. Significant increase in cow performance monitoring from fourth test gives more reliable data to identify top-performing animals, enabling informed culling and breeding decisions that enhance herd and milk quality.
Find out more about herd tests
Johne's disease milk testing
Funding for Johne's disease testing carried out on milk samples. Regular testing and effective management practices minimise disease transmission within the herd, reducing clinical disease and subclinical production loss.
Find out more about Johne’s disease milk tests
BVD testing
Funding is available for BVD tissue testing of any replacement calves in the 2025/26 season. Identifying and removing persistently infected animals prevents ongoing transmission.
Find out more about BVD calf testing
GeneMark® Genomics testing
The Fonterra payment will be applied when the farmer completes GeneMark Genomic testing in the 2025/26 season. The payment can also include the cost of the tissue punch units and the tissue sampler.
Find out more about GeneMark Genomics
Sexed semen straws
Funding for the use of sexed straws. Targeted mating plan to increase the chances of obtaining a replacement calf from the best performing/most efficient cows in the herd. Funding must be used within the 2025/26 season.
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