SMASH On-Line - Paths to Farm Ownership - with Manoj Kumar and Sumit Kamoj
October 10, 2025
Is farm ownership your goal?
Join us to hear how Manoj Kumar and Sumit Kamoj, DIA 2021 New Zealand Share Farmers of the Year 2021, turned their farm ownership dream into reality 14 years after arriving in New Zealand.Field Day, Simple and Smart Systems, Mata, Northland
November 04, 2025 - December 04, 2020
Join us to visit Andrew and Vicky Booth’s farm, managed by Jen Summerell, which has been set up with the aim of being run profitably and efficiently by a single person. The Booths’ farm is 100 ha (85 eff), milking 240 Friesian cross cows OAD through a 28 aside HB shed, producing 400 kg MS/cow/year. The Booths use all bulls for their mating, buying in carry-over cows as replacements.
Field Day, Simple and Smart Systems, Tarurutangi, Taranaki
November 27, 2025 - December 04, 2020
Join us to visit Al McFetridge’s 64 ha farm (plus 23 ha lease) where he milks 200 Friesian cross cows producing 400 kg MS/cow/year. He aims to run a simple system, a goal which was reinforced after a serious on-farm accident last year. Al has just completed a rebuild of his dairy shed, installing a rotary platform and upgrading his yards and effluent infrastructure.