About Us
Dairy Projects International is a registered company based in
Rotorua, New Zealand, in the centre of New Zealand's major dairy
farming areas.
It is managed by two directors, John Perrin and Colin Millar, and
a team of support and administration staff.
John Perrin
I am a registered, professional Farm Management Consultant and
have been consulting and advising farmers since 1975, specializing
in the provision of full management services to a range of clients,
many who are absentee landowners. I have a proud record of
achieving profitable results for my clients.
Initially I specialised in full supervision services for absentee
owners of sheep and beef farms. During that time I gained
considerable experience from sheep & beef breeding schemes;
sheep & beef management; intensifying and developing profitable
farming systems.
During the 1990's business planning identified a need to diversify
many large-farm clients' businesses into dairy farming. We were
instrumental in the strategic planning processes to make these
decisions; implemented feasibility studies to determine the
viability of each project, and business as a whole; were project
managers of the conversion and responsible for delivering the
results as indicated in the initial studies.
Within the last 12 years we have completed six major dairy
conversions ranging in size from 300 to 1500 cows.
Dairy Projects International capitalises on that practical
experience. It is now being put to use globally, in the USA, South
America and interest now from Asia.
Qualifications:
Dip VFM (Lincoln College, now Lincoln University)
Registered Farm Management Consultant
Registered Valuer
A full business profile for Dairy Projects International is
available in:
English (SUGGEST WE UPLOAD NEW PROFILES AS THESE ARE FROM
2006)
Portugese (SUGGEST WE UPLOAD NEW PROFILES AS THESE ARE FROM
2006)
Both are PDF documents and require Adobe Acrobat
Reader.
I have owned and productively managed my own dairy farm. In 1982
I purchased a small engineering company and have since developed
this into a large, successful business employing 10 staff,
specialising in farm related engineering.
In this time I have developed and created the "Reporoa High Lift
Gate", a sought after backing gate for Dairy Parlour yards, which
has been exported to the UK, Australia, Brazil, and Denmark.
Reporoa High Lift Gate
Showing light weight robust construction, this gate is able to
travel over the top of cows in the yard and drop down at any point
to provide a physical barrier to shift both large and small groups
of cows. This gate has revolutionised cow handling at the milking
parlour.
The Reporoa High Lift Gate can be fully electronically automated
to the level required and can, with the "dung-buster" attachment,
clean the yard as it moves forward.
Click here for
more information about the Reporoa High Lift Gate.
Associated support
DPI has the professional support of water reticulation engineers,
farm mapping and fencing specialists, research facilities and
supply sources of New Zealand pasture seeds, New Zealand dairy
genetics, and milking plant and parlour components.
International Experience
- Export of advice and consultancy services to Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Australia
- Export of gates to UK, Australia, Denmark, Brazil and Jamaica;
- Export and construction of milking parlours to UK, Denmark and United States;
- Export of advice and consultancy services to USA.
Cultural Awareness and Influences
New Zealand is largely bicultural and we understand the need to
take local cultural factors into account in our management systems.
We operate with indigenous people in New Zealand, providing
consultancy and full management, and producing very profitable
results, enabling groups to realise their social and cultural
aspirations.
