Membership
Membership of NZLHA is open to all dairyfarmers. If you wish to become a member of NZLHA, please fill out and submit the form below.
You do not have to have a Large Herd to become a member or to attend the annual conference.
A membership fee of $10 /person is payable and may be posted to the NZLHA Secretary.
Celebrating Life Members
Professor KL (Jock) Macmillan
Jock Macmillan has conducted research wide ranging research on the reproductive performance of dairy cattle, mostly in New Zealand, but also in Australia and the USA. He defined the management differences between year-round calving patterns and seasonal ones; commercialised the development of tailpainting; and developed the CIDR insert, in particular its use for treating anoestrus. He was a Research Officer with the NZ Dairy Board from 1967 to 1977 before transferring to Ruakura, first with MAFFTech until 1988 and then with the DRC until 1997. He has been the Dairy Australia Professor at the University of Melbourne since 1997.
Shelagh Bragg
1981 was the first Large Herds Conference Shelagh attended and she has been a regular delegate until 2009 missing only three conferences between 1982 and 1988. From 1989 until 2009 she has attended every year.
The 1990 conference in Tauranga saw Shelagh as Secretary of the Bay of Plenty Organising Committee. As well, a recently converted dairy farm owned by Earle and Shelagh was one of two featured as focus farms for that conference.