Breaking it down: balancing minerals in springer diet
Understanding the nutritional needs of springer cows is crucial for ensuring a successful transition resulting in improved cow health, productivity, and reproductive performance.
In the past year, farmers using MyOSPRI have created just over 15,000 electronic farm-to-meatprocessor and 1300 farm-to-farm Animal Status Declarations (ASDs).
MyOSPRI is a new farmer customer portal, and the first functionality added to it was the ability to send electronic ASDs.
OSPRI says the next major milestone in MyOSPRI is to replace the NAIT system with a more userfriendly and fit for purpose traceability system. The aim is to make interacting with OSPRI’s traceability and the TBfree programme easier.
The organisation adds that, as part of the build, it is working to update MyOSPRI more often, with incremental changes so farmers can benefit from the new traceability features as they’re ready.
OSPRI says the purpose of improving the NAIT system is to decrease the barriers that farmers currently experience when trying to complete their NAIT obligations.
“This should improve compliance and therefore more accurately reflect what is on farms throughout New Zealand.”
Farmers can register for MyOSPRI now and use it to send electronic ASDs.
Trade Minister Todd McClay says New Zealand has no intention of backing down in a trade dispute with Canada over dairy products.
There have been leadership changes at the Hamilton-based Dairy Goat Co-operative, which has been struggling financially in recent years.
Horticulture NZ chief executive Nadine Tunley will step down in August.
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Another 16 commercial beef farmers have been selected to take part in the Informing New Zealand Beef (INZB) programme designed to help drive the uptake of genetics in the industry.
Trade Minister Todd McClay says Kiwi exporters will be $100 million better off today as the NZ-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) comes into force.
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