Brendan and Katya Caird in New Zealand are now involved in four dairy farms, between owned farms and equity partnerships. They recently bought Skipton Farm near Fairlie in the South Island. The farm has a milking platform of 175ha and is currently milking 630 cows. Most farms in New Zealand have similar standards of cleanliness.

Brendan and Katya Caird, Skipton Farm, New Zealand.

The soiled water lagoon is in three sections with a weeping wall. The liquid fraction is pumped using a Briggs irrigator.

The intersection of the farm roadway and collecting yard.

The 50-point rotary on the Caird farm.

A house on the farm for one employee.

The handling unit on the farm is not used too often as most of the cow handling is done on the rotary deck.

The Cairds are running a 50-point DeLaval rotary.

Circular collecting yard is washed with a dungbuster on the gate.