CUSTOMER FUNDING
Your Co-op has made a strategic choice to focus on sustainability—ensuring premium access to international markets and partnerships with customers who value your milk—while also supporting you in increasing on-farm efficiency and achieving your farm goals.
For the 2025-26 season, customer-funded on-farm solutions are available to all farmers who achieve any level of the Co-operative Difference.
You can use the on-farm solutions throughout the 2025/26 season.
From August 2025 you will be able to apply for funding, with up to $1,500 per farm available. Funding will be paid directly to you.
Simply choose the best option for your farm and book directly with the supplier. This may be a service you are already using, or something new to you – it’s your choice.
YOUR OPTIONS
The confirmed on-farm solutions below have been selected based on farmer feedback, the fact that they are results-driven, widely available, easy to use or install, and help to drive emissions efficiency (terms and conditions apply).
Funding to trial (or continue use of) technology subscriptions to support on-farm feed production and utilization.
Funding to trial (or continue use of) technology subscriptions to manage your farm and data.
Funding for various options to help monitor and improve your herd health, delivered through your choice of LIC or CRV.
Funding for up to $1,500 of planting with a nursery or provider of your choice.
Funding is available to support the trial or continued use of technology subscriptions that enhance homegrown feed production and utilisation. These tools can help you make more informed decisions about pasture growth, supplement use, and feed budgeting - improving animal performance and reducing waste.
Join hundreds of Kiwi dairy farmers grazing smarter with AIMER, New Zealand’s leading pasture management app—saving hours each week with partial farm walks and AIMER Vision, while lifting profit and sustainability through better pasture utilisation.
Funding is available for AIMER Essentials and AIMER Pro subscriptions.
Pasture.io is an AI-powered satellite platform that provides daily paddock-level insights for pasture management optimisation. Fully automated pasture readings generated from your grazing entries means no more farm walks.
Funding available for the 'Fundamental and Essentials' and the 'Fundamental and Ultimate' subscriptions.
Homegrown feed, how to make the most of it, and the benefits it can bring to your farm – join the Farm Source team and our Pasture Partners to discuss.
Access funding to trial or maintain technology subscriptions that streamline farm operations and data management. These tools can help you track performance, plan more efficiently, and make data-driven decisions across your farming business.
FarmIQ is a farm management platform that centralises records, compliance, and planning - helping farmers make better decisions from paddock to processor.
Funding is available for the Performance+ and the Pro subscriptions.
Trev is a trusted operational management tool that turns farm data into clear insights, driving productivity, profitability, and sustainability throughout the season.
Funding is available for the Trev Pro subscription.
Through both FarmIQ and Trev you can share your data to Fonterra to pre-populate part of your Farm Dairy Records.
Funding is available for a range of options designed to help you monitor and improve herd health and productivity. Choose from services delivered through LIC or CRV to suit your farm’s needs, whether you're focused on fertility, genetics, or animal wellbeing.
Funding for your fourth herd test. Significant increase in cow performance monitoring from fourth test gives more reliable data to identify top-performing animals, enabling informed culling and breeding decisions that enhance herd and milk quality.
Funding is available for BVD tissue testing of any replacement calves in the 2025/26 season. Identifying and removing persistently infected animals prevents ongoing transmission.
Funding for testing carried out on milk samples. Regular testing and effective management practices minimise disease transmission within the herd, reducing clinical disease and subclinical production loss.
Funding is available for genomic testing within the 2025/26 season. Genomics enables farmers to accurately match calves to their parents, enhancing precision in breeding programmes.
Funding for the use of any sexed straws. Targeted mating plan to increase the chances of obtaining a replacement calf from the best performing/most efficient cows in the herd. Funding must be used within the 2025/26 season.
Receive up to $1,500 in funding to support planting projects through a nursery or provider of your choice. Whether you're establishing shelterbelts, riparian zones, or native plantings, this support helps you enhance environmental outcomes on-farm.
Planting on farm can improve erosion control, waterway nutrient levels, and biodiversity, while providing shade and shelter. As they grow, trees actively sequester carbon.
Planting video to come, check back soon.
HOW TO APPLY
You will be able to apply for funding via the Farm Source website from August 2025. We will email you when this is available.
Take a look at the list of tools and services below and decide which one you'd like to use.
Get in touch with the provider at any point this season to book in.
Apply for funding - in August, you'll recieve a link to a form where you'll need to let us know your chosen option. The form will be open until 30 November 2025.
Achieve any level of the Co-operative Difference in 2025/25 and meet the requirements of the full Terms and Conditions.
FAQs
All farms can apply for and receive funding for on-farm solutions, but they need to achieve any level of the Co-operative Difference at the end of the 2025/26 season. Farms that don’t achieve the Co-operative Difference in 2025/26 will need to reimburse their funding.
In February farmers were invited to share their ideas on what solutions they would like to see. Ideas were received through email (onfarmsolutions@fonterra.com) or through a webform on the Farm Source website.
On-farm solutions will be subsidised up to a capped amount, so all farmers who achieve any level of the Co-operative Difference can benefit.
For the tools and services pilot in 2024/25, we used a ballot system, where some farmers missed out. Capping the funding means we can share the funding with all farmers who achieve the Co-operative Difference.
These solutions were suggested by farmers through the feedback process and scored the highest on the assessment criteria. The providers of these solutions are also in a position to meet the criteria and ready to deploy in the 2025/26 season. On-farm solutions needed to be available to all farmers, have results-driven emissions reductions, and be easy to install or use.
We will continually review the on-farm solutions to provide tools or services which further support farmers with emissions.
In the 2024/25 season we ran a pilot providing select tools and services to farmers. The customer funding for this pilot was capped, requiring a ballot system to be run due to over subscription from farmers. For the 2025/26 season any farm that achieves any level of the Co-operative Difference will be eligible for on-farm solutions.
Herd testing requires farmers to have paid for the first 3 herd tests with the 4th test being eligible for funding. All other solutions already in use can be funded or farmers can choose another solution.
Yes.
No, the funding portal will be open for a set amount of time from August. Exact dates are to be confirmed and will be communicated to farmers. Dates will account for farmer engagement with the application portal.
