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Working as a veterinarian pregnancy testing dairy herds helped shape the thinking of Australian farmer Tim Humphris when he and his wife Lyndal decided to go farming.

Passion for farming and their animals runs deep for David and Pip Fullerton, known for their international genetics work with Holsteins on their “top-performing” South Waikato farm, comments feed manufacturer Fibre Fresh.

With the threat of climate change confronting New Zealand dairy farming, CRV Ambreed says their tropical dairy breed may provide a solution.

April is the month when farmers need to make the final decision about hogget breeding for the year.  

Australian researchers say the reason ewes produce many more lambs of one sex in one year than in others is traceable back to their diet in the leadup to joining.

Liveweight breeding values for dairy cattle are to improve as a result of data analyses by NZ Animal Evaluation Ltd (NZAEL), a subsidiary of DairyNZ.

CRV Ambreed's highest ranked Jersey bull died this month. Pukeroa TGM Manzello produced 467 daughters in 173 herds in New Zealand alone. He died from a progressive illness.

Dairy farmers wanting to produce healthier and more efficient animals can now make this part of their breeding programme, says herd management firm CRV Ambreed.

New Zealand's seasonal dairy system brings a need to maximise the number of days in milk, and this season the pressure is greater than ever upon farmers to achieve that.

IT'S THE stuff animal breeding sales representative dream of - selling 70,000 semen straws in a season.