Displaying items by tag: goats
Do all you can to resist Johne’s disease in herds
The importance of testing, managing and controlling the spread of Johne’s disease (JD) in dairy goats shouldn’t be underestimated.
Day out connects teachers with agri
Dairy goats: the high performance ruminants
Assuming a goat’s nutritional requirements fit somewhere between that of sheep and cattle is a mistake.
Goat farmers: Do it once, do it right
Time to put Johne’s on the map
Johne's disease (JD) is a major production-limiting disease of farmed ruminants worldwide and, after CAE, it is the biggest animal health concern for goat farmers.
High aims for dairy goat sector
Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor, out and about last month in Waikato, ended one day holding baby Neve — but not of Ardern-Gayford fame.
Dairy farmer’s passion for goats
Dunsandel farmer Michael Woodward may be Federated Farmers North Canterbury dairy chairman but his real passion is the angora goats he inherited from his father John.
Hemara to head Dairy Goat Co-op
NZ dairy goat rotary in demand
New Zealand expertise in designing and manufacturing dairy goat rotary platforms is in demand in China.
Goat farmers still waiting
South Island dairy goat farmers still have no large-scale market for goat milk some 18 months after a Chinese-backed processing plant began to be built -- with some fanfare – at Ashburton.