There’s a global market for the dairy calves you already produce.
Across Australasia, millions of dairy calves a year are still treated as waste. Finished fast on grass, they don’t have to be.
In New Zealand they already carry a verified footprint 32–48% below Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s pastoral baseline (AgResearch RE450/2024/054). Register your animals, and the chain that needs them can see them.
Registering doesn’t commit you to a sale — it puts your animals on the map. An independent standard for the chain it serves, modelled on Bonsucro and FSC.
Our model is built around what’s already there.
The dairy calf is already born — a by-product of the milk system the world already relies on, and today much of that value is lost. Finished fast on grass, that same calf becomes lean beef with a significantly lower footprint, because it shares the footprint of a dairy system already producing milk.
Dairy beef is naturally lean. In a conventional model that’s a limitation — leaner animals struggle in a value system built around premium steak cuts. Here, the economics invert.
The whole carcass becomes a single stream of premium lean manufacturing beef — exactly what the world’s largest food brands are searching for. KaiProva verifies every animal against the standard, so buyers don’t have to trust a claim; they can verify it, animal by animal.
That verified supply backs the climate and sourcing promises those brands have made — and they’ll contract years in advance to lock it in. Those contracts create certainty for rearers; certainty creates demand for the calf. The animal once treated as waste becomes one of the most valuable in the chain.
The incentives align. The chain is whole. That is the architecture.
No herd changes needed — register the animals you have, or the animals you could raise if the chain was there. KaiProva doesn’t buy the animal; it verifies it so the chain can contract. The premium flows back through the chain at processing.
Put your region on the map this calving season.
Two numbers, side by side. Pledged — the non-replacement calves farmers in each region say they could raise. Enrolled — animals already inside the verified pipeline today, anchored on public biosecurity records. The gap between them is the opportunity.
Register the calves you could raise.
No herd changes, no commitment. This is a pledge that puts your region on the map — it makes no verification claim. Verification starts later, animal by animal, when you enrol in the Protocol.
Registrations open soon
We’re putting the finishing touches on the registration system — including our privacy policy — before we start collecting details. Your region is part of the movement. Check back shortly, or come see us at Field Days.
Three steps. Most farms register in under fifteen minutes.
Sign in
One-tap with Google, or a magic link sent to your email. No password to remember.
Set up your property
NAIT number (in New Zealand) or NLIS number (in Australia), farm name, contact details. Add as many properties as you run.
Enrol your mob
One upload from any EID reader enrols the whole mob. Stay on the monthly cadence and they stay inside the verified claim through to processing.
Every supply chain is a weave of relationships.
In conventional chains an animal becomes a number — a carcass, a commodity, a carbon average. KaiProva carries the connections forward instead: birth, farm, processing, buyer. The relationships that make something what it is become visible.
Once the chain is visible, stewardship has something practical to stand on. Care for animals, land and people that can be measured, verified, contracted, and improved — not as a slogan, as the way the chain actually works.
For farmers, this means recognition for the quality of what you produce. Not as a marketing claim. As the architecture.
Independent science. Public records. Animal by animal.
Bioeconomy Science Institute (formerly AgResearch)
LCA by AgResearch, animal by animal, not industry average. The 54-scenario LCA for 10–18 month young dairy beef on grass shows a verified footprint 32–48% below the New Zealand pastoral beef average reported by Beef + Lamb New Zealand.
Source: AgResearch report RE450/2024/054, Mazzetto et al. 2024. Full methodology on the science page.
NLIS · NAIT
NLIS in Australia, NAIT in New Zealand. The tag in your animal’s ear is the receipt. The same architecture extends to BCMS in the UK, USDA-ADT in the US, and SISBOV in Brazil. Public biosecurity records are the anchor — not a parallel registry.
EID reader or CSV
Weigh data flows from your reader into your KaiProva property — via Gallagher Cloud API, or a CSV from any EID reader. No retyping, no double entry.
FAQ.
I don’t rear or finish dairy beef right now. Should I still register?
Yes — that’s exactly who this is for. The chain only works if buyers can see what’s possible, not just what’s already happening. A registration from a farm that could switch is just as useful as one from someone already doing it. No commitment.
What about the price?
KaiProva doesn’t set the price you receive — that’s between you, your processor, and the buyer. What KaiProva does is make the verified claim visible so a premium can attach to it, and so buyers can contract on supply they can see in advance. The premium flows back through the chain at processing.
I’m a dairy farmer. Where do I fit in?
You are the origin. Every non-replacement calf born on a dairy farm is a potential animal in this system — instead of waste, a verified young beef animal.
If you also rear or finish, you register the animal directly via your KaiProva property. If your dairy company is part of the pathway, your animals flow into it through them — talk to us about the dairy-companies pathway.
What does 10–18 months on grass actually mean in practice?
It means finishing young beef on grass — not mature beef. The animal reaches processing spec between about ten and eighteen months of age, between 250 and 450 kg liveweight. That’s the LCA window AgResearch modelled and what the verified low-carbon claim rests on.
What does it cost to register?
Nothing. The platform is funded by a per-kg-carcass-weight fee at processing — paid by the processor on the verified premium. The fee doesn’t come out of your farm-gate price.
Do I have to commit to supplying anything?
No. Registering puts your animals on the map. You only supply once you’ve signed a contract — and you only sign a contract if the terms work for you.
What data leaves my farm?
Your weigh files and animal IDs go into your KaiProva property, scoped to your organisation. No farm data is sold or shared outside KaiProva’s verification function.
What does “verified” mean?
Every KaiProva carbon score traces back to a scenario in AgResearch report RE450/2024/054 — commissioned contract research, not a farmer-written statement. The standard is independent of any one processor or buyer. KaiProva verifies what conforms; the science is AgResearch’s, the biosecurity layer is NLIS / NAIT, the contract is yours with your processor.
Is this connected to Mīti?
Mīti is one consumer brand built on KaiProva-verified supply (also owned by KaiProva Labs Tāpui Limited). Other processors and brands can contract on the same supply — this isn’t Mīti-exclusive. KaiProva is the standard; Mīti is one of the buyers.
I’m coming to Fieldays. Can we talk in person?
Yes — find us in the Prototype Innovation Section, stand IN24. Or email hello@kaiprova.com to set up a chat.
Every link in the chain sees the same record.
The chain is whole. That is the architecture.
Five perspectives on one verified animal. Each part of the chain has its own view.
For processors →
Forward visibility on verified supply. Locked specifications travelling with the animal. One processing event closes the record — animal, weight, claim, premium, audit trail.
For buyers →
The evidence file behind the claim, not just the claim itself. Verified records from birth. Audit-grade chain of custody. Multi-year sourcing horizons.
For dairy companies →
A verified premium pathway for non-replacement calves. A milk-supplier loyalty lever. A measurable Scope 3 position downstream.
For regulators →
Independent science. Public biosecurity records. Multi-stakeholder governance. Audit-grade against evolving climate disclosure.