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OPINION: Sydney has a $12 million milk disposal problem.
Figures from DairyNZ suggest the average New Zealand dairy farm spends around $54,000 annually on the battle against mastitis.
Australian farmers Trevor and Anthea Saunders are dedicated Jersey breeders. Anthea controls the calf rearing on their farm in Warragul, Victoria, determined to give them the best possible start.
Nutritional scours is one of the two forms of scours in unweaned calves. The other form is pathogenic scours.
Adopting a transition feeding programme should be a ‘no-brainer’ for Australian dairy farmers, says a nutrition and animal health specialist.
One vet clinic says it is doing its bit to help cash-strapped dairy farmers.
TB infection in a dairy herd is a “terrible thing” mentally and morale-wise for a farmer, says Chris Kelly, chairman of the TB plan review governance group.
A pland to eradicate TB from New Zealand livestock within 10 years will cut the need to test some herds and will reduce the work in some vector areas.
Winter weather can place extra strain on the banks of farm waterways, increasing the risk of erosion degrading water quality.
Using bought-in supplement to ‘produce milk for milk’s sake’ could be robbing the New Zealand dairy industry of its resilience says DairyNZ primary scientist John Roche.
One of the biggest recent advances in maize agronomy has been the growing of maize crops under film using the SAMCO System.
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Leading a discussion after the Groves and Lincoln presentations, DairyNZ consulting officer Caleb Strowger asked what is being retained, reduced, deferred or removed from budgets this season.
Weeks of frost have knocked pasture cover on Lincoln University’s Dairy Farm and the South Canterbury Tactics for Tight Times (TTT) focus farm is no different.
The world's cheese business was worth US$216 billion last year, and in four years should be worth US$237b, says market research company Canadean.
Agreement has been reached on reducing by 20% the amount of nitrogen leaching into Lake Taupo through the ground.
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