Cuddling cows
OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
Farmers planning to meet new milk cooling regulations from 2017 are offered a new means of doing so.
It's sometimes claimed the best ideas are the simplest ones, and an entry in the Innovation Awards at Fieldays backed this thought.
The recent cold snap makes it hard to imagine spring is just around the corner, but Tornado fertiliser spreaders from Agriquip should make a breeze of spreading for the new campaign.
With pressure on farmers to tidy up their act in effluent handling, Viking Containment’s timing in introducing a new liner for storage ponds or lagoons couldn’t have been better.
The dairy industry now fully realises the benefits of applying effluent (FDE) to land; not least its fertiliser value – the ability to replace N, P and K, and trace elements, rather than rely on artificial fertilisers.
Figures from DairyNZ suggest the average New Zealand dairy farm spends around $54,000 annually on the battle against mastitis.
Australian farmers Trevor and Anthea Saunders are dedicated Jersey breeders. Anthea controls the calf rearing on their farm in Warragul, Victoria, determined to give them the best possible start.
Nutritional scours is one of the two forms of scours in unweaned calves. The other form is pathogenic scours.
Adopting a transition feeding programme should be a ‘no-brainer’ for Australian dairy farmers, says a nutrition and animal health specialist.
One vet clinic says it is doing its bit to help cash-strapped dairy farmers.
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TB infection in a dairy herd is a “terrible thing” mentally and morale-wise for a farmer, says Chris Kelly, chairman of the TB plan review governance group.
A pland to eradicate TB from New Zealand livestock within 10 years will cut the need to test some herds and will reduce the work in some vector areas.
Winter weather can place extra strain on the banks of farm waterways, increasing the risk of erosion degrading water quality.
Using bought-in supplement to ‘produce milk for milk’s sake’ could be robbing the New Zealand dairy industry of its resilience says DairyNZ primary scientist John Roche.
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