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How Composting Barns Improve Cow Comfort and Lift Milk Production

This post is adapted from an interview with Billy Gibbs, Aztech Buildings' regional sales manager, originally published as “Infrastructure that...

What Are Feedpad Covers, and Are They Worth It for NZ Dairy Farms?

A feedpad cover is a roof built over a dairy farm's feeding area, most often using a clearspan steel structure, to keep the pad dry, separate clean...

Composting Barns NZ: Bedding, Feed Efficiency & Farm System ROI

Composting barns have moved from being a relatively new idea in New Zealand dairy to a serious infrastructure conversation for farmers looking at...

Best Bedding for Composting Barns: Why Aztech Chooses Woodchip

Bedding might seem like a small detail in the bigger picture of dairy infrastructure, but in a composting barn, it’s the engine that keeps everything...

Barn Life Suits Stock and Farmers | Farmers Weekly

It’s all about lifestyle – for humans and cows – at Rene and Ereine Vos’s Huntly dairy farm, with the addition of an Aztech composting barn.

‘Complete package’ self-composting cow barn has triple-bottom-line benefits

Tony Allcock had a vision: a cow 'moo-tel' on his Waikato dairy farm.

‘West Coast’ cow cockies say ‘get off the grass’ to new rules

When stock wintering rules designed to protect waterways were imposed on a century-old South Island dairying property, the owners bet their nest egg...

How dairy farmers are creating environmentally-friendly 'Mootels'

Dairy farmers have been adapting to meet new Government regulations to protect waterways with one successful innovation being the composting cow barn.

Composting barn better for cows and land, says Karamea farmer

The organic fertiliser formed underneath Volkman's herd will be spread onto the paddocks of his Little Wanganui dairy farm.

Putting cow comfort first with customised farm sheds

Local Dairy Farm, Mike Simpson of Rangiriri West, worked closely with Aztech Building’s team to design and deliver a feedpad cover that has...

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How Composting Barns Improve Cow Comfort and Lift Milk Production

@Aztech Buildings / July 14, 2026

This post is adapted from an interview with Billy Gibbs, Aztech Buildings' regional sales manager, originally published as “Infrastructure that...

What Are Feedpad Covers, and Are They Worth It for NZ Dairy Farms?

@Aztech Buildings / July 8, 2026

A feedpad cover is a roof built over a dairy farm's feeding area, most often using a clearspan steel structure, to keep the pad dry, separate clean...

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Composting Barns NZ: Bedding, Feed Efficiency & Farm System ROI

@Aztech Buildings / July 2, 2026

Composting barns have moved from being a relatively new idea in New Zealand dairy to a serious infrastructure conversation for farmers looking at...

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Best Bedding for Composting Barns: Why Aztech Chooses Woodchip

@Aztech Buildings / January 14, 2026

Bedding might seem like a small detail in the bigger picture of dairy infrastructure, but in a composting barn, it’s the engine that keeps everything...

case study

Barn Life Suits Stock and Farmers | Farmers Weekly

@Aztech Buildings / November 25, 2025

It’s all about lifestyle – for humans and cows – at Rene and Ereine Vos’s Huntly dairy farm, with the addition of an Aztech composting barn.