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Calf nutrition model produces more with less
The game is changing for New Zealand dairying as we face the challenge of producing more milk with less.
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Calving
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Minerals for calving success
If your goal is to improve your herd’s calving performance, it makes sense to scrutinise your animals’ mineral balance. It plays a key role in calving success and any gaps are surprisingly easy to address. Ruminant nutrition specialist, Natalie Hughes, explains what’s important.
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Be prepared to calve with care
Calving is a key event in the farming calendar and the more prepared you are, the better. Having the right knowledge and skills for the job, the right equipment and a well-prepared team will help ensure all calves receive the best start to life.
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Optimise your profitability from autumn calving
Before and after calving there are challenges aplenty for farmers. However, when calving through autumn, there are a few additional nutritional issues to be aware of. SealesWinslow’s Science Extension Officer, Paul Sharp, provides some expert tips on how to ensure a strong start to a productive lactation.
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Technology helps solve heat detection puzzle
Better heat detection in dairy herds is recognised as one of the industry’s “low hanging fruit”, capable of delivering bankable profits within a year.
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The key to rumen development
Dairy farmers know how important rumen development is in young calves. Rumen development is the process that prepares and primes the engine room for lifetime production
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Avoiding winter accident pitfalls
August sees dairy farmers busy with calving and it’s also a time when certain injuries are more likely on 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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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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Calf welfare is key to successful farming
A successful calving season starts long before the first calf arrives. Planning ahead ensures your calves will be treated with care and respect, from birth to beyond the farm gate.
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Thinking about winter milking? What to consider when calving in autumn
When it comes to calving each farmer has different seasonal plans. Calving decisions depend on a number of factors such as cash-flow, beef and dairy markets, regional climate, herd size and labour.
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Caring for calves new regulations
Over the past eight months, farmers have had to familiarise themselves with new regulations around the care and handling of young calves. Seven new regulations were announced by Minister Nathan Guy in 2016, three of those come into effect this year.
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Don't stop feeding calves too soon
It might be tempting to stop providing calves with feed as soon as they are happy on pasture, but this can lead to heifers with lower conception rates and lower milk production volumes.
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Four reasons to get cows back in-calf
In the New Zealand dairy industry, the average six week in-calf rate is approximately 65% and the empty rate sits at around 15%. Improving reproduction targets will always provide a return on investment.
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