THE GOALS of the 2013 Southland Sharemilker/Equity Farmers of the Year, Don and Jess Moore, are to optimise production and maximise profit to reach farm ownership and enjoy a balanced lifestyle.

JAMES COURTMAN is young, ambitious and already successful.

SCIENTISTS FROM DairyNZ, LIC and the Australian dairy industry have been able to prove that some calves and cows are more efficient converters of feed than others.

WHAT’S A cow’s field of vision? How well do they smell? What is their sense of taste? Do they feel pain as we do?

THE DAYS of observing and physically examining each cow to discern abnormal rumen function will soon be a thing of the past, says the developer of the world’s first wireless device to track the health and fertility of cows. 

ABOUT 80% of the milk sourced by Riverina Dairy factory in Albury, Australia, comes from Riverina Milk, which runs 1500 cows at Corowa.

THE FIRST-CONCEPTION rate of non-cycling cows can be improved 50% by combining a progesterone implant with a cycling programme, say Australian vets who studied 19 dairy herds. 

FARMERS SHOULD lead the conservation movement to get the best return on their products, says farmer/conservationist, Dan Steele.

WINNING THE title ‘Dairy Woman of the Year’ would open the door to represent the dairy industry in an urban context, says BEL Group business manager Justine Kidd, Waipukurau. 

MORE THAN a few farmers would have coughed up their morning coffee on March 13 when they looked at the front page of the New Zealand Herald.  There was a photo of a cow looking up at a rifle muzzle and about to get a bullet.