Cuddling cows
OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
Irish dairy farmers are responding positively to a research programme designed to measure nitrogen and phosphorous leaching on their farms.
A collaboration between DairyNZ, the Waikato River Authority and Waikato Regional Council is seeking to better protect and restore the Waikato River.
On the need for water: don’t you wish you had a bit more water to keep pasture alive? Were you one of those farmers who strove to build an effluent pond of minimum size, and so missed out on having extra water in this year’s dry season?
Installing a lateral-move irrigator was one of the best investments Australian farmer Peter Smith has ever made.
A project intended to protect the Waikato and Waipa rivers has gained a time extension.
Dairy Farmers can get a ‘warrant of fitness’ issued for their farm effluent and irrigation systems and be confident the WoF is ‘on the level’, says DairyNZ.
The fresher the better, according to new research which shows available nitrogen from farm dairy effluent diminishes the longer the effluent is stored.
Dairy farmers are using slurry tankers to spread effluent, boosting soil fertility, says C B Norwood Distributors Ltd, distributor of Pichon tankers made in France.
DairyNZ has begun running dairy farm field days nationwide to highlight water usage – the quantities used and simple measures to minimise volumes and costs.
Arguably the most dangerous journey a dairy calf will ever make is from the uterus of its mother, down the birth canal to the outside world.
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Pick your paddock well and renewing pasture will pay handsomely. Get it wrong and you spend a lot of money for no gain.
Do bigger cows mean more milk in the vat? No, says Australian farmer Sue Walton. Sue and husband David proved this when they switched to buying genetics from LIC 10 years ago, chiefly for easier calving.
At last some much needed rain has fallen. But some farms have had less 30 mm, so pastures are still declining quickly and I am seeing large differences in average pasture cover (APC) between farms.
BEC Feed Solutions NZ can already teach its Australian big brother a thing or two in the dairy supplements side of its operations, after only one year in business.
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