Who are Dynamic Dairy?
We are Gonzalo Vasquez Del Rio, Juan José Maureira Riedemann, and Danaee Jouannet. Bringing a diverse range of skills and experience to our Dairy Farming Consultancy.
Native Spanish speakers and fluent in English, we work both in New Zealand and Ecuador to deliver our Dairy Farming Consultancy Services.
Gonzalo Vasquez Del Rio
We arrived with my family in 2009 to NZ. We started in New Zealand at the bottom, regardless of our previous education or the fact that my last job in Chile was General Administrator of a dairy holding company. Although immigration was and continues to be complicated, in my situation this meant a big but motivating challenge.
I started as a dairy farmer on a farm with 3,000 cows, I was there from 2009 to 2011, then from 2011 to 2014 I worked on another farm as Second in charge, then from 2014 to 2017 as second in charge on a farm with 900 cows. Finally, since 2018 I was Administrator or Farm Manager of a farm with 2000 cows. Finally I managed a state-of-the-art farm in North Canterbury which is the dairy Mecca of the world.
Since 2021, my wife and I created a Partnership (GD Farming Partnership) and became Share Milkers or Contract Milker in the Golden Bay region (Nelson Tasman).
Here we have annually improved all KPIs or performance indicators.
We are currently in the third season and Fonterra nominated me for the national competition for the best Contract Milker in NZ, a competition that ends in June 2024
Juan José Maureira Riedemann
My name is Juan José Maureira Riedemann, I am a Chilean veterinary doctor, graduated from the Universidad Austral de Chile. For 6 years I worked and improved myself in the area of reproduction, bovine genetics and comprehensive management in medicine of bovine herds, being part of leading companies in the livestock sector, and also developing private consulting, all this in the area with the highest milk production. In these years and for a period, I worked under the supervision of New Zealand advisors, where I learned about and adopted the Kiwi work method in milk production.
At the same time that I began my working life in Chile, I also began my married life. I met my wife at the university, in Valdivia, Gabriela is Ecuadorian also linked to an agricultural career, she came to improved herself by doing a postgraduate degree in animal reproduction at the UACH.
After exploring the possibilities of professional development for both of us in Ecuador, and seeing that there were very good job opportunities, we decided to move. In Ecuador I have developed as a livestock advisor in comprehensive management in bovine herd medicine, this covers animal health, breeding, genetics, udder health and milk quality, nutrition, animal welfare, but mainly the emphasis is on bovine reproduction, taking as The objective of professional advice is to achieve efficiency in the use of resources, thus obtaining greater profitability of the productive unit.
Currently the area where my work is concentrated is in the mountains, between the cities of Ambato and Ibarra, but I also work in the high tropics, in the province of Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas, advising dairy and beef farms. He also advised some companies and livestock farms in an area that is very important to develop and control even more, which is the training of agricultural workers. He is trained in areas such as artificial insemination and bovine genetics, bovine podiatry, grazing management, calf rearing and mammary health.
Danaee Jouannet
Coming from a totally different world of work, the airlines, DJ slowly entered into a dairy environment, basically due to raising her son and adapting to New Zealand culture, thus, step by step, she entered into the work of dairy farming, helping her husband.
She finally made the decision by entering to study at ITO in 2016, “raising and managing calves in NZ”. Later in 2017-2021 she began rearing calves in North Canterbury at Callura Dairies, a 2,000-cow dairy company. There she raised, fed and handled the calves, of which 400 were for replacement, without having any death or illness. In those four years she learned enough to finally be nominated in 2021 as one of the top 5 calf raring calves in North Canterbury.
From 2021 to present she manages the calf’s replacement area at Willowbank Takaka, Golden Bay region of Tasman, where she is partner in GD Farming. Her methodical approach and adaptability to different situations makes DJ the perfect person to manage the replacements of future dairy cows in your farm.