Herd Management News
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Vytelle Awarded For Global Sustainability
Today, the Business Intelligence Group named Vytelle a Sustainability Leadership Award winner in the 2022 Sustainability Awards program. The Sustainability Awards honor those people, teams and organizations who have made sustainability an integral part of their business practice or overall mission. The global cattle industry is facing what Vytelle calls the triple challenge. Farmers are facing a ...
By Vytelle, LLC
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Breeding for Survivability with Genetic Selection and Measurement
Established in 1992 by Mr. John Downs, the Southern Cattle Company is nestled right in the middle of the Florida panhandle, northwest of Marianna—also known as “The City of Southern Charm.” The ranch itself was originally founded with one simple yet eloquent goal: to produce genetically exceptional cattle through genetic selection. Today, Mr. Downs is still ...
By Vytelle, LLC
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Censortec, Alfco and Cormac Tagging Partnership
Censortec, Alfco and Cormac Tagging have joined forces in a new strategic partnership to offer Irish Farmers the complete solution in Animal Monitoring , Animal Drafting and Animal Identification. The partnership between Censortec Ireland, Alfco Farm Services & Cormac Tagging will bring the largest supplier of animal monitoring systems in Ireland, Alfco the largest supplier of drafting ...
By Censortec
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Rapid Growth in the Afimilk USA Sales and Technical Support Team
FITCHBURG, WI–Afimilk North America recently added four new members to the sales and technical support teams in the U.S. in response to the company’s goal of satisfying the cow monitoring and parlor automation needs of dairies across the U.S. In addition, Jen Weber, North American Technical Director, is searching for additional candidates for application and technical support ...
By Afimilk Ltd
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Detect nutrition changes before you can see cow effects
Cows are ruminants and depend on a consistent ration with high-quality forage. Changes in ration consistency can impact cow performance. But it’s difficult to see how cows react to deliberate or unintended ration shifts before obvious signs occur, like a drop in your bulk tank or changes in cow health. Herd monitoring technology offers a way to detect early cow reactions, so ...
By Censortec
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Pasture-based systems to profit from sensor technology
Pasture-based systems to profit from sensor technology With the winter season around the corner, it is all about planning to make the year ahead a smooth and profitable one. Accurate and easy to use cow sensor technology from Nedap has been proven successful for pasture-based systems and helps to achieve farm goals and create peace of mind. The new breeding season is almost ...
By Censortec
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Customised approach is MAJOR distinction
Jim Bob Jones is owner operator of JT Jones Agricultural Contractors in Little Worthen, Shropshire. Booming business meant Jim needed to change out his old slurry tanker and invest in something bigger. However, only Major Equipment listened to him and offered a customised solution specific to his ...
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Zero-waste slurry solution Co. Cork dairy operation
Getting the most from their home farm acreage has been the prime goal for Victor and Rita Jennings, a husband and wife farming team based out of Cork, Ireland. They farm 190 acres of grassland and milk 160 Pedigree Holstein Friesians. “The farm was originally a suckler to beef farm ran by myself and my mother, who still has a major interest in the farm,” explained Victor Jennings. ...
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The New Ultra Flex-Pen - The Ultimate Indoor Pen Solution
Agri-Plastics, the Calf Housing Specialists, have been making calf hutches since 1995. The first product the VanBuuren family developed was an outdoor hutch made for one calf. Over the years, Agri-Plastics created a variety of outdoor hutches and expanded its product offering to include a variation that works for indoor barn operations. Introducing the Ultra Flex-Pen: a versatile indoor pen ...
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Three Piglets Extra Due to New Protein
In October 2019, Dortheasminde started feeding EP199 to sows to improve their productivity. A choice that owner, Søren Kjær Poulsen, is very pleased with. By spending 23,5 EUR per produced sow per year, EP199 has resulted in an extra three weaned piglets per produced sow per year, 0.7 piglets more were weaned per weaning and 700 grams extra weight gain was recorded before weaning. ...
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MDA Unveils Resources for Livestock Producers/Processors During Pandemic
Editor’s Note: The Minnesota Dept. of Agriculture yesterday announced some initiatives to help farmers during the current pandemic, and we thought these details might be helpful for your farm operation. The information below comes from an April 22 MDA announcement. This and other COVID-19 related resources for farmers are being collected at sfa-mn.org/covid-19-resources-for-farmers. ...
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Seminar on AfiFarm in Krasnodar city
From 2 to 4 February 2020, an Israeli company Afimilk held a seminar for users of the AfiMilk Herd Management program. The official representative of Afimilk in the south of Russia – dealer company YugAfimilk – undertook all works on organization and technical support of the seminar. The training took place in the Krasnodar office of Afimilk and was conducted by ...
By Afimilk Ltd
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AMTS.Cattle.Pro v 4.14.0 Release Small Ruminants
The primary focus of the release is the incorporation of a small ruminant model–Sheep and Goats! This screen as many of the same features of the Cattle screen–you can create, rename, copy, reorder, and delete sheep and goat groups just as you can cattle groups. The input categories allow you to tailor the information to animal type and specific details for lactating sheep, dry sheep, ...
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Free DNA-Test Reveals The Truth about your Piglet and Sow Feed
How healthy are my pigs, and what’s the effect of the feed? Pig producers now get the answers to these questions through a free DNA-test. The protein producer European Protein offers free DNA-tests for producers when they try a new complementary functional protein that improves sow and piglet productivity. European Protein recently started testing several of their new customers´ sows ...
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Don’t let poor parlour hygiene ruin the quality of your milk
Every dairy farmer knows the importance of keeping their milking parlour clean and hygienic to prevent mastitis cases and improve milk quality. However, you may not be aware of just how many factors come into play in order to keep parlour hygiene at its best. Issues with high somatic cell count (SCC) or mastitis can cost farmers time and money to fix, not to mention milk quality and quantity ...
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Neogen partners with IGS to enhance Igenity Beef Profile
Neogen Corporation (Nasdaq: NEOG) today announced that it has entered into a collaboration with International Genetic Solutions (IGS). The effort is focused on heightening genomic impact in the IGS platform, the only major multibreed beef genetic evaluation available, and at the same time greatly enhancing the research and development necessary to continue to improve Neogen’s Igenity Beef ...
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Top milk in Cow Town
Dairy enthusiasm does not get any bigger than in the Western Australian hamlet of Cowaramup, where cows are worshipped, in art and in life. About a three-hour drive south of Perth, the idyllic locale affectionately known as ‘Cow Town’ is home to 42 Friesian sculptures and dairy farmer of 55 years Rodney May, his wife Nicole and their four children. The family own 235 hectares of ...
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Australian milk production in 2018-19 season confirmed
Australian milk production in the 2018-19 season (ending 30 June 2019) was 8.8 billion litres, down 5.7 per cent from 9.3 billion litres the previous year. This is a significant revision up from Dairy Australia’s previous estimate that national milk production would fall between 7 to 9 per cent to 8.45 to 8.65 billion litres. Total milk production for 2018-19 is confirmed along with the ...
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Pasture trials harvest rewards
Western Dairy’s latest independent pasture trials and demonstrations are bigger than ever and helping inform the seed choices of Western Australia’s dairy farmers. The WA Seed Performance Trial (WASP), Grazing Management Demonstration ‘Goldilocks Grazing’ and the Seed Mix Trial all offer independent analysis of pasture varieties and management techniques tailored ...
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Branding Update for MilkSampler
The Ambic MilkSampler has been given a ‘facelift’ to strengthen its corporate identity by adding the Ambic logo to the Milk Sampler bottle, as illustrated below. This improvement follows the upgrade of the Milk Sampler with the ultra-sonic welding of the cap to improve the sealing of the unit over a range of operating conditions. Samplers shipped from early August will feature the new ...
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