Displaying items by tag: Livestock Improvement Corporation

The future growth and sustainability of the New Zealand dairy industry will be underpinned by innovation and investment in research and development (R&D). 

It's past mid-September and as calving draws to a close it is time to ensure mating plans are in place.

LIC is introducing daily testing of bull semen to combat the threat of the Mycoplasma bovis disease.

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 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.

The use of New Zealand sourced genetics in LIC and First Light’s joint Wagyu breeding programme is making commercial sense all along the supply chain, the two companies say.