Ellinbank Smartfarm

The Ellinbank SmartFarm in Gippsland is Australia’s leading dairy innovation facility, fast-tracking innovative technology solutions in a research environment and showcasing them to the dairy industry.

It is delivering benefits to the Australian dairy industry in terms of productivity and environmental sustainability through:

• improvements in measuring, managing and utilising the homegrown feedbase
• improving the health and welfare of cows
• improving the longevity and lifetime performance of cows
• sustainably increasing annual milk production per cow.

This SmartFarm has an ambitious target of being the world’s first carbon-neutral dairy farm by:

• reducing methane emissions
• generating electricity through a range of alternate options including solar, wind and bio-digestion
• improved fertiliser and manure management practices.