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Shed Hygiene

Proven Performers

Developed here in NZ, our range of high strength dairy hygiene products help avoid costly grades.

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Teat Care

Active Performers

Healthy cows perform better. Together with New Zealand's leading range of active teat care products, we can help prevent mastitis.

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Animal Markers

Tried, Tested, and Proven

Animal markers are one of the most effective and easy to use herd management tools. Containing fluorescent pigments for quick identification.

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Animal Health

Reliable solutions

Nutritional supplements to promote peak health in grazing animals.

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Water Quality

How's Your Water Quality?

It's an important factor to any farming business, it can affect many different aspects of your operation; milk quality, livestock health and production.

View products >Quantum Red ACID

Safety Data Sheets

Each SDS contains important information about the safe handling and storage of products in the FIL range.

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News & advice

Why is teat condition so critical?

Why is teat condition so critical?

25 Jul 2022

Maintaining good teat condition can be a battle in the first eight weeks of lactation when conditions are generally cold and wet.

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Mastitis Prevention Roadshow

27 Jun 2022

We’re hitting the road again with our Mastitis Prevention Roadshow! The FIL and Farm Medix Ltd team are coming to five new locations in Otago and ...

View Milking plant start up

Milking plant start up

20 Jun 2022

There are several procedures around the milking plant that can be done to help kick off the season grade free.

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What our farmers say

Teat spray automation brings big benefits on Northland farm

Using an automatic teat spray mixing system has given Northland farmer Travis Parry not only ‘peace of mind’ but has demonstrated that even smaller scale farms will see plenty of big benefits. 

Travis & Lisa Parry - Northland

How Oamaru farmer solved a seven-year mastitis problem

“Knowledge is power” says Farm Manager Sarah Smart, who had experienced a high incidence of clinical mastitis for seven years and was treating 20 percent of the herd annually. Today, the herd’s SCC is the lowest it has ever been.

Sarah Smart - Otago

Bellevue Farms: Capturing all of the detail during mating

Dairy farmer Peter Bellamy milks 900 cows in Te Poi with his son Simon, and three other staff. When it comes to heat detection, he sees FIL Detail water-based tail paint as a reliable part of his toolbox.

Peter Bellamy - Waikato

Teamwork makes the dream work for Stratford sharemilkers

Craig and Tracey Fisher are 50/50 sharemilkers, milking 210 cows on 86 hectares at the base of Mount Taranaki. With the combination of FIL teat care products and on-farm support from their local FIL Area Manager, Craig and Tracey are in the right hands when it comes to managing mastitis and putting ...

Craig & Tracey Fisher - Taranaki

Reliable, safe and cost-effective heat detection

Chris and Vickie Thompson have been farming 250 cows on their low-lying dairy farm in Hinuera for 10 years, following 15 years of sharemilking in the local area.

Chris Thompson - Waikato

“I think FIL products are superior. And… we’ll see savings in the long run.”

Sharemilker Jonny Russell likes to do something once and do it right. Changing to FIL teat care and dairy hygiene products last season has proven to be the right move: teat condition is significantly better and the plant is cleaner. He puts this success down to having a better programme and using ...

Jonny Russell - Waikato

“Before we changed to FIL we had a shocking season, with 15 demerits. We decided to make the switch, and it’s been a grade free year, this year.”

Dairy farmer Andrew Sillis switched to FIL last season on the back of 15 demerit points in the previous season. The farm has now been grade-free for a year.

Andrew Sillis - Waikato

Improved teat spray efficiency with the Intelliblend

Canterbury Sharemilker Mark Hutchins highly recommends FIL’s Intelliblend teat spray mixer and delivery system, noting that the herd’s somatic cell count evened out straight away. Plus, their drums of solution are lasting at least a week more.

Mark Hutchins - Canterbury

Case study: How Farmer Andrew Hardie managed contagious Staph aureus mastitis in his herd

In 2017 a Farm Medix Herd Screen revealed 130 cows on Te Maunga farm in Dannevirke were infected with Staph aureus. This was the start of a journey to dramatically reducing and controlling mastitis through a vigilant approach to herd management, pathogen identification and targeted treatments. 

Andrew Hardie - Manawatu - Whanganui

Case Study: Jess Hardegger - How to keep your herd clean and clear

Back in 2018, Jess Hardegger had 27 clinical mastitis cases present in just 17 days through the January dry period, the somatic cell count jumped from 70-80,000 to 230-240,000 simultaneously.

Jess Hardegger - Southland

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