Displaying items by tag: Breeding
Indexes aim at breeding healthy cows
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.
Getting heat detection right
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.
Selling semen and loving it
IT'S THE stuff animal breeding sales representative dream of - selling 70,000 semen straws in a season.
Can we breed better cows?
A LEADING geneticist says he thinks the breeding of cows could go further in New Zealand.
Trials of sheep breeds
A PERENNIAL challenge for sheep breeders is knowing what market they are breeding for, a leading New Zealand sheep geneticist says.
UK biofuels influence NZ wheats
EXPECT TO see more soft feed wheats from European, notably UK, breeding programmes, growers at PGW's agronomy group field day last week heard.
Sheep breeders’ awards
Top performing New Zealand sheep breeders were recognised at the first-ever Beef + Lamb New Zealand Sheep Industry Awards in Invercargill last week.
Book celebrates AI history
The history and impact of artificial breeding on the New Zealand dairy industry has, for the first time, been chronicled in a book which will be launched in Hamilton next month.
