Research is already well under way at the Southern Dairy Hub, writes Nicole Sharp.
The first lot of research conducted at the hub has been a winter feed trial comparing kale and fodder beet.
Speaking at the hub's first field day, DairyNZ senior scientist Dawn Dalley said there were four herds of 80 cows in the trial, two on beet and two on kale.
"Within each of these systems, we had two different allocations of feed in terms of dry matter."
One herd was fed 85% crop and 15% baleage on beet and the other 70% crop and 30% baleage, and the same percentages on the kale crop.