Displaying items by tag: animal health

North Otago farmer Francois Tillard is among farmers who have signed up for LIC’s female genotyping service to identify their best heifer calves long before they step up to the milking platform.

As dry summers persist in the South Island, genetics could hold the answer to helping dairy farmers breed healthy cows that produce more milk from less feed.

After an absence of two years due to Covid and international travel restrictions, the New Zealand Dairy Youth Team returned to Northern Victoria, Australia recently to compete at International Dairy Week (IDW) at Tatura Park.

MPI’s Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures fund will invest over $35,000 in a project with Tokaora Diagnostics to develop a prototype facial eczema (FE) rapid antigen test (RAT) and undertake field testing.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) is reminding farmers to protect themselves, their families and stock as cases of Salmonella and Leptospirosis rise in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle.

A Taranaki couple that took an unconventional route into dairy farming is proving there is more than one way to blaze a trail.

Probiotics can be used to help with mastitis and lameness issues facing flood-ravaged farms, claims Chris Collier, Probiotics Revolution.

New Zealand Animal Evaluation Ltd (NZAEL) says changes to fertility estimated breeding value (EBV) will provide more accurate information to dairy farmers and artificial breeding companies ahead of the next mating season.

Tru-Test Active Collars have proven to be a game changer for many Australian and New Zealand farms since launching earlier this year.

Farmers grazing dairy heifers are being encouraged to download a new factsheet to help them manage worms.