About us

EveryCow is delivering excellence for sustainable farming businesses through technology and consultancy.

A leading, evidence based, technology driven company providing dairy consultancy solutions across New Zealand. We aim to assist you and your team in finding innovative solutions to production, profitability, health and data management issues and to aid with improving your farms performance and profitability.

EveryCow provides leading, evidence based, tailored consultancy services. We are motivated to develop and source, new, proven technologies and systems. With focused research, we deliver game changing outcomes across the dairy sector.

Grant has joined us, bringing to the team an extensive background in large scale dairy operations, management, animal monitoring and agribusiness. Grant and Angela live in Gimmerburn where Angela runs a sheep and bull beef operation. They enjoy having their kids home and spending time together on farm.

Grant is a handy man to have in your quiz team, especially the sports section.

Meg Simpson joined the team at EveryCow in July 2016. Prior to joining us she had been managing dairy farms in the Mid Canterbury area since graduating from Lincoln University in 2009. She has particular interest in using farm data analysis and technology to maximise system productivity and profitability. She also loves to use her farming background to make the data and research “real world” relevant and applicable at the grass-roots level. In her spare time she loves to cook, battles away with a bit of road cycling and has given up on trying to train Mildred, her misbehaving Fox Terrier.

Steph has been working for Vetlife in North Otago for the last five seasons in a business development role.  She has enjoyed helping clients make the right decisions with their animal health options in order to meet their own production goals. Prior to that, she has worked as a large animal technician in both on farm and research roles. She has a B.Sc with a major in Animal Science and a Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Science, both from Lincoln University, and is looking forward to ensuring communication with our existing clients is smooth and efficient.

Originally from Southland, she lives on the border of North Otago and South Canterbury and plays Netball for Kurow in their Senior A team, who play in North Otagos premier division. She also enjoys traveling, music, and keeping fit with social sports over the Summer.

Bernardita Saldias (Berni) is one of our research scientists and is a consultant in ruminant nutrition, rumen function and fodder beet systems. For the last six years Bernardita has worked on fodder beet systems and she enjoys transferring her experience to farmers and learning from their experiences also. Bernardita shares her time between Dairy, Sheep and Beef in which she uses her background experience in rumen function and data analysis.

After studying Steph had the opportunity to manage a sheep milking, finishing and breeding farm in West Otago for 3 years before moving to Mid Canterbury to take on large scale dairy farm management. Her partner and three children are now based in Pleasant Point contract milking 1200 cows and are also equity partners and directors on a smaller dairy farm in Southland.

Steph loves dealing with all of the different challenges that comes with running a consistently high performance farming business and enjoys pulling from her practical experience and mixing it with research and science to analyse entire farm systems so we can ensure that business targets are not only met but exceeded!

Katherine has been with EveryCow since January 2014 and prior to this she was part of the Vetlife Head Office team for four years. Katherine, her husband Josh and two young boys Kip and Mac live locally and enjoy being part of a small rural community. When she is not at work she enjoys spending time with her family, gardening and being outdoors.

We arrived as a family of four in New Zealand in 2000 after 10 years of dairy cattle practice in the UK. We thought we would only stay a year but we’re still happy to be here. Becoming New Zealand citizens has given me and my family a sense of belonging. It is a huge privilege and pleasure to see my children as young New Zealanders.

The thriving dairy scene in New Zealand was a breath of fresh air and even with the up and down nature of the commodity cycle I continue to enjoy being part of an industry of national significance.

My current role as director of dairy research within Vetlife involves developing our capability for research, new dairy services for our clients and the provision of professional development for Vetlife colleagues. The most rewarding aspect of this is to see an idea develop from the first thought bubble to adoption and implementation. The challenges and rewards of delivering reputable, peer-reviewed science in a Practice environment continue to keep my job interesting and satisfying.

None of it would have been possible without the opportunities provided by education, professional development, an innovative and imaginative work culture, supportive colleagues and above all an understanding and caring family.

I hope to continue my own professional journey and have particularly enjoyed working and collaborating with colleagues within New Zealand’s Universities, DairyNZ, AgResearch, LIC and veterinary colleagues in industry and in Practice across New Zealand. So much out there is interesting: I just need more time and brain power to process it.