Dairy farming is one of the important activities undertaken by Self-Help Groups (SHGs) to enhance their socio-economic conditions. The present study attempts to compare the extent of adoption of improved dairy management practices by trained and untrained dairy farm women members of SHGs in Gadag district of Karnataka during 2014-15. Multistage random sampling procedure was followed for selection of 60 trained and 60 untrained dairy farm women members of SHGs. Thus, the total sample size was 120. The data was collected from the selected sample through personal interview with the help of pretested structured interview schedule. The results with respect to overall extent of adoption showed that, majority of the trained (70.00%) and a negligible percentage of the untrained (1.67%)dairy farm women members of SHGs belonged to high adoption category of dairy management practices. Further, in relation to practice wise extent of adoption of dairy management practices it was reported that majority of trained and untrained dairy farm women members of SHGs were fully adopted the practices like, keeping watch on estrous cycle and heat symptoms of cow/buffaloes (96.67 and 50.00%), practicing AI/Natural service within 12-14 hours after onset of estrous (98.33 and 66.67%), growing forage crops all along the border of field (80.00 and 65.00%), daily requirement of dry fodder (8-10 kg) (83.33 and 58.33%), offering medicines to the sick animals from veterinary doctor (95.00 and 75.00%), practicing the dry period in cow/buffaloes before 3 months of parturition (93.33 and 78.33%) etc. Z- test analysis revealed that there exists a significant difference between trained and untrained dairy farm women members of SHGs with respect to extent of adoption of dairy management practices