This report describes an investigation into the application of machine learning tools in the area of agricultural database information. The Weka workbench is a set of machine learning software tools with a common data input and operation interface which has been developed by a research team at the University of Waikato, Department of Computer Science. An extract of a database containing information on dairy cows was processed by various tools in the Weka workbench over a three month period in early 1994.