Crunching the numbers on farming systems Sheena Carter – NSW DPI Development Officer and Dairy Business Advisory Unit leader All dairy farming systems can be profitable if managed well, but preliminary data analysis from NSW’s Dairy UP program suggests there’s...
Predicting and preventing disease to keep older cows milking Figure 1. Shows that low and very high producing cows are at reduced probability of pregnancy in a lactation. The figure also shows that odds of getting pregnant during a lactation reduce with increased...
Data drives future dairy management Using rumination data to more accurately wean calves to promote better health and production potential is just one of the applications of new data technologies being investigated by Assoc Prof Cameron Clark and his Dairy UP...
Rare opportunity for aspiring dairy researchers Dairy UP – the $16m project to unlock the potential of the NSW dairy industry – is calling for candidates for nine PhD projects, creating a rare opportunity for aspiring dairy researchers. Dairy UP program leader,...
Dairy Research Foundation 2021 Symposium Online 17 & 18 November 2021 The 2021 Dairy Symposium will be live online for the second year in a row. We can’t meet face to face this year, but we can take advantage of the technology and just ‘zoom it’. With an...
Niall Blair appointed chair of Dairy UP New collaborative dairy research and development program Dairy UP appoints former agriculture Minister Niall Blair as new Chairperson of its Steering and Advisory Board. Professor Niall Blair, former New South Wales Minister for...