Dairy benchmarking program

Project details

Status: Current

Tasmanian Dairy Farm Monitor Project

The Dairy Farm Monitor Project (DFMP) provides a comprehensive physical and financial analysis of 250 dairy farms across Australia, representing a distribution of farm size, herd size and geographical location. DFMP informs decision making and prioritisation for key industry stakeholders including Dairy Australia and government bodies.

The Dairy Farm Monitor Project (DFMP) provides high quality comparative data in DairyBase, which is available to all dairy farmers to measure and compare their own farm business performance and identify areas for improvement.

Each year, Tasmanian dairy farmers are invited to participate in the the project which is run by the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture.

Participants receive a free on-farm assessment and a comprehensive report summarising their farm's physical and financial performance for the 2025/26 financial year.

The Dairy Farm Monitor Project provides valuable benchmarking information to help farmers:

• Compare their business with similar dairy farming systems
• Identify opportunities to improve profitability and efficiency
• Support informed business planning and decision-making
• Better understand their farm's carbon emissions performance

Participants in DFMP are eligible to enter the Dairy Business of the Year Award.

Find out more

To learn more about DFMP and access past annual reports, visit the Dairy Australia website.