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Latest enrich magazine
With calving underway, our focus is on setting you up for a successful season and helping ensure you get the right solution for your farm.
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Simplify the tracking of young stock to target weights
The accurate and timely weighing of young stock is key for dairy farmers. Research by both DairyNZ and Massey University has shown growth rates in young dairy stock can have a lifetime impact on milk production.
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Rearing healthier more productive calves
Fibre is essential to achieve a healthy, productive calf and particularly important for rumen development. As ruminants, cows require quality fibre in the diet to maximise production and to maintain health by sustaining a stable environment within the rumen.
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Calving hygiene sometimes a bucket of soapy water isnt enough
Fibre is essential to achieve a healthy, productive calf and particularly important for rumen development. As ruminants, cows require quality fibre in the diet to maximise production and to maintain health by sustaining a stable environment within the rumen.
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New generation of livestock scales really weigh up
Before starting work on the new TW-1 Weigh Scale, the Gallagher research and development team wiped their boards clean, put on their gumboots and headed to the farm.
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Reduce relapse and get back to milking
A quick return to milking is the aim when treating cows down with milk fever, or milk fever complicated by grass staggers or ketosis.
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Rearing calves that become great heifers
In a quest for optimal results, dairy farmer Greg McCracken has trialled various feeding regimes over the years. Thanks to his carefully documented evidence, he now knows exactly what works and what doesn’t.
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The importance of colostrum management
It can be surprisingly difficult to ensure calves get quality colostrum when they need it, but there are some management practices that can help. DairyNZ Senior Developer, Animal Husbandry, Helen Thoday explains.
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Nitrogen and sulphur powering spring growth
It’s important to understand the interrelationship of nitrogen (N) and sulphur (S) to maximise spring growth.
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Gallagher adds solar kick to mains energizers
Smart technology has given Gallagher’s latest energizer range a new level of flexibility and reliability making them suitable for use in even the remotest, toughest farming locations.
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Treat captive bolts like firearms - safety first always
The humane destruction of livestock is an unpleasant, but necessary part of farming life. Whatever the reason for destroying an animal, the process should always be carried out in a humane and effective manner.
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Supporting calves with probiotics
Shane McPhee has been on his farm near Whakatane for 14 years and rears 200 Friesian bull calves every year. After reading about a new probiotic product for calves called BiosupportTM in a magazine, Shane was intrigued.
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Hitting growth targets starts with calf nutrition
The right diet gives calves the best start in life, especially when raising replacements for your herd.
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Safety sighters improve gateway visibility
A common high risk area on many farms are unseen wires across gateways and races, often put up to guide stock after milking and drafting. For anyone on a farm bike, these can be near invisible, and potentially extremely dangerous.
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Preparing the cow for lactation
What do you change in your herd’s diet from three weeks out from calving? Everyone knows the raft of metabolic diseases that can develop shortly after calving, but not everyone knows how to prevent them.
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