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LIC chairman Murray King has won the Cooperative Leader of the Year award.

LIC says it is in the early stages of developing artificial intelligence (AI) software to allow early detection of lameness caused by cow gait.

LIC’s new satellite technology (called SPACE) that measures pasture cover will be a new feature on the Fieldays site.

LIC chief executive Wayne McNee says it hasn’t found any sign of the disease Mycoplasma bovis in its bulls or semen.

LIC is mourning the passing away of its longest serving staff and one the dairy industry’s most influential scientists.

LIC director Steve Poole will step down at the end of next month.

One of the most unpredictable places to be in a dairy shed is arguably the back end of a cow.

Researchers at Livestock Improvement Corp (LIC) are working with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to piece together a genetic jigsaw of 15 million pieces.

A lot has changed in farming over the last 22 years since LIC launched the production worth (PW) index in 1996, with breeding worth (BW) and lactation worth (LW). 

Picking easy-care cows is about to get a whole lot easier with the first change to the calculation of production worth in 22 years.