Rural Delivery - Series Three, Episode Four

It's not the only reason why people are going once-a-day farming. There are huge sorts of other factors like ‘happy cow, happy farmer’ sort of thing, once-a-day cows are generally happier cows.

– FarmWise researcher Ryan Anderle on why farmers are switching to once-a-day milking

Scientists in New Zealand, based at Lincoln, and they’ve developed a material which you can wash … it's lightweight, it's abrasion resistant, and they’re done that by a new way of creating a yarn from a single strand of wool instead of weaving two strands together.

– Dr Andrew West, AgResearch, explains the technology behind his wool suit

The type of quality that I really need in the milk supply is something that's going to give the cheese a full creamy flavour, something that the customer is going to prefer ... for the texture and also the colour has a lot to do with it. So this milk always tends to produce the type of texture and flavour characteristics that I need.

– Paul Fitzsimons on sourcing the best milk for his cheese factory

We’re Central Waikato, we farm a total of 92 hectares, 84 effective. At present we’re milking about 280 cows. We have been having part-time labour and we thought if we went once a day we wouldn’t need labour which seemed a sensible idea.

– Dairy farmer, Dean Simpson on why he switched to once-a-day milking

There's an art in making cheese but it's also very scientific. I mean, we’re trying to get a balance between the rate of acid production as a result of adding the cultures being at the right pH at the right time.

– Paul Fitzsimons on the cheese-making process