Posted 29 July 2022
Lameness in dairy cows is a huge financial, logistical and emotional stress on dairy farmers in New Zealand and worldwide. Not only is there lost milk production, but also vet and treatment costs along with the extra time and effort in caring for distressed animals.
Posted 2 July 2021
The StockRock team had a blast at this year's Fieldays with hundreds of people coming through to see us and meet our new Sales Manager Sean Hogan.
It's always good to hear from existing customers about how well their StockRock races are working, and more importantly it's great to chat to farmers about their issues and concerns so we gain a better understanding of their needs.
Posted 18 May 2021
The StockRock team, and the greater Blue Pacific Minerals family are pleased to welcome Sean Hogan as the new StockRock Sales Manager.
Posted 9 March 2021
March is the perfect month to start planning improvements to your farm races. The weather is still relatively dry and with luck you have time to take a breath, assess, and make some of those important decisions for future productivity and maintenance.
Posted 27 May 2020
Much to the relief of many business owners, including most of rural New Zealand, the Government announced the move from Alert Level 3 to Alert Level 2 at 11.59pm on Wednesday 13 May.
This allowed time before Gypsy Day when the dairy farming community sees major movements of stock, farm workers and contract/share milkers. At Level 2 inter-regional travel is allowed, which is great as it means no extra paperwork or admin to gain permission for those people and stock moving longer distances around NZ.
Posted 17 December 2019
2019 has come and nearly gone, and our dairy farming clients have faced another year of challenges with innovation, positivity and resilience. We value the relationships we have with individual farmers, and the fact that we can genuinely help one small part of their business by reducing lameness in the herd.
Posted 18 March 2019
Feel free to take up my offer to come and give you a free quote and advice on your farm.
Posted 23 January 2019
StockRock is proud to support the NZ Dairy Industry Awards as a Tier 2 sponsor in the 2019 Regional Awards. New Zealand is divided into eleven different regions for the purposes of the Awards Programme. We are sponsoring the Auckland/Hauraki region.
Posted 14 December 2018
Merry Christmas to all our clients, thank you for your business this year, take it easy those of you farmers that will take a few days off at the beach.
Posted 13 November 2018
Now that we are later in the spring and about to head into summer it is really surprising that whenever we get rain for more than 2 days my phone starts to ring. Farmer will say that “my races looked great and then as soon as it rained it was ankle deep in muck” Next minute they have anywhere from 3 to 10 lame cows within a couple of days.
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