Southland dairy embraces high-performance biological farming

Four-leaf clovers are more common on Darrell and Julie Wendelgelst’s Southland operation since they embraced biological farming.

Darrell and Julie Wendelgelst had already been paying close attention to their soils when Darrell travelled to Tasmania with the Dairy Business Centre on a biological farming tour in 2023. With some cows in Darrell and Julie’s 400-cow herd producing up to 1000kg MS, they could have been forgiven for approaching any kind of change cautiously.