ARE YOU checking the milk urea analysis of your production? Did you even know it was available?

AUSTRALIAN DAIRY farmers are being urged to provide as much mating data as they can for inclusion in the April 2014 Australian Breeding Values (ABVs), to help improve fertility in the dairy industry.

MIKE JOY USED to manage a dairy farm near Palmerston North many years ago and loved the job. 

THE DEMAND FOR dairy products in China is unprecedented and Australian milk producers have been told they should grab the opportunity with both hands.

DAIRY TECHNOLOGY designer and manufacturer, Waikato Milking Systems, is looking forward to a productive 2014, with new trade opportunities opening up.

DNA SEQUENCING has identified another genetic flaw in dairy cattle, this time coming from the Jersey side of the industry.

SEASON’S GREETINGS and a special greeting to those who have to milk over Christmas. I’ve milked only five times over Christmas in my 30-year dairy career and though the Christmas morning milking was ok, milking on Christmas afternoon was a killer and boxing day morning was even worse.

FARMERS TICKING a survey box marked ‘animal details’ guided LIC in its latest choice of smartphone app, said the company as it launched its Minda Lookup recently.

STEPHEN AND Jane Hayes run 348 sheep and 734 cattle on their 583ha property near Kaeo, just north of the Bay of Islands. For the past three years they’ve been Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s Far North monitor farm during which time they’ve lifted gross farm revenue $43,850, not to mention having better pasture covers and stock condition across the farm.

A COMPULSORY control programme for Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) in New Zealand is unlikely in the near future despite a growing number of nations, mostly European, adopting such measures, says the chairman of a national steering committee on the disease.