Waitaki's dairy farmers and their cows are wintering well.
North Otago Federated Farmers dairy section chairman Lyndon Strang told Central Rural Life that conditions before calving were ''pretty good''.
Heifers on many farms would begin to calve in mid to late July.
Although the mating period had been ''a bit of a problem for most people'', since then there had been good crop and grass growth, Mr Strang said.
''There's plenty of feed for winter.