Dairy Farm Manual Contents
This is the base template of the dairy manual. If you have additional policies of your own then they are easily incorporated into your manual.
Contents Overview
Introduction
Achievement Records
Farm history
Farm management structure
Farm support services
Mission statement and farm goals
Preferred contractors
Reviewing the Farm Manual
Staff roll call
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Section 1
Administration And Planning
Accounting/bill payments
Accounting/data entry
Accounting/invoicing
Benchmarking and monitoring
Computer maintenance
Dissemination of information
Electricity supply
Expiry dates
Farm maps
Financial analysis
Health and safety/training programme
Insurance
Planning
Project proposal
Regular tasks checklist
Risk management
Yearly calendar
Section 2
Animal
Animal status declaration forms
Animal health
Animal nutritionist
Animal welfare
Beef
Biosecurity
Bloat
Bobby Calf Collection
Calf rearing
Calving
Colostrum cows
Culling
Dead stock disposal
Debudding
Dogs
Drenching programme
Drying off
Feed budget for dairy cows
Heat detection and mating
Herd records
Herd testing
Lameness
Mastitis
Mating
Milk fever
Sheep
Stock transportation
Section 1
Section 3
Human Resources
Section 4
Machinery
ACC – return to the workplace
Accident reporting
Accommodation
Children in the workplace
Dress standards
Drugs/alcohol in the workplace
Emergency situations/response information
Equality/anti-bias (including sexual harassment)
Evacuation drills
Farm advisors
Hazards
Health and safety policy statement
Health and safety responsibilities
Housing Record
Human resources management
Pandemic Plan
Performance management
Recruiting staff
Reporting lines and communication
Roster
Smoking
Training/Education
Visitors to the farm
Working alone
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Section 1
Machinery operation
Maintenance schedules
Motorbike helmets
Operation of tools and plant
Use of agricultural vehicles on public roads
Vehicle log
Vehicle register
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Section 1
Section 5
Operations
Chemical spillage
Clean up after milking
Dumping contaminated milk
Effluent management
Environmental and sustainable farming
Farm dairy
Feeding out
Feed monitoring
Fertiliser
Nutrient budget
Fuel and oil storage and use
In-line dispenser
Intensive cattle grazing
Irrigation
Maintenance in the cowshed
Manual handling
Meal feeding system
Milk quality programme
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Milking
Platform bearing changing
Regrassing
Removing stones from milk pump
Run-off
Wintering dairy cows
Security
Stock water
Supplement production and use
Teat sprayer
Top and backing gate
Trouble shooting in the cowshed
Use of RT and cellphone
Vacuum pump oil changing
Washing the vat
Waste management
Weed and pest control
Workshop and storage areas