milk yield News
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Higher milk yield by giving cows a name: fact or fiction?
Fact! Increased human attention to the individual animal improves milk yield and cow behavior. On farms where cows were called by name, milk yield was found to be higher than on farms where this was not the case. Increased human attention to animals and predominant positive contact are the key factors in improving the quality of human-animal interactions. Human-animal interactions can have ...
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Lallemand Animal Nutrition participates at American Dairy Science Association-American Society of Animal Science Joint Annual Meeting
In July, Lallemand Animal Nutrition employees attended the 2014 Joint Annual Meeting (JAM) of the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) and the American Society of Animal Science (ASAS), held in Kansas City, Kan., USA. The JAM is a technical and research-focused meeting where professors, graduate students and industry professionals congregate each year to share the latest in industry research ...
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Internet of Things – Improving Animal Welfare and Reducing Use of Water
It’s been a buzz word for some time now; the internet of things (IoT), which sees the adoption of technologies including sensor-controlled rooms for growing lettuces, cows connected to the internet to improve milk, and even bees receiving a boost from automated heaters. A report by Beecham Research, as detailed in The Guardian, examines how the use of IoT has real potential to cut costs ...
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Better milk production and stronger piglets
Challenges with too many weak sucklings and not enough milk were turned around after many years of trying to come up with a solution. Poul Grøntved is a Danish pig producer. He owns a farm with 800 sows producing seven-kilo piglets. Like many other farms, Poul Grøntved has a growing litter size but struggled to increase the sows’ milk yielding to feed the growing litter. Lack ...
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FarmWizard Launch new DairyHUB Parlour Control System
AGRI-IT company FarmWizard is launching a new cloud based dairy parlour control system (PCS) which enables management of multiple milking parlour systems across multiple farm sites. FarmWizard, one of the UK and Ireland’s fastest-growing technology companies and the company who provide software for Cogent PD+ , will unveil the PCS at the Northern Ireland Winter Fair next ...
By FarmWizard
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Three step plan for late-cut grass
Why? Because improved grass growth towards the end of the season has the potential to produce silage quality similar to first cut. True, it may not yield as well. But it has the capacity to deliver good protein and energy levels. Which is exactly what’s needed for more litres of milk from forage. And, if you are on a multi-cut system, you may be glad of that extra yield. Unlocking ...
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Biotechnologies should benefit poor farmers in poor countries
The focus of modern and conventional biotechnologies should be redirected so as to benefit poor farmers in poor countries and not only rich farmers in rich countries, FAO said today. 'Modern and conventional biotechnologies provide potent tools for the agriculture sector, including fisheries and forestry,' said Modibo Traore, FAO Assistant Director-General, addressing the international technical ...
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Milk Production Process: Pledge to Cut Emissions from Dairy Farms
Interest in the increasing carbon footprint of the dairy industry has grown considerably over the past few years and growing greenhouse gas emissions from the milk production process are a contributing factor. A number of greenhouse gases (GHG) are produced from fertiliser production through to consumption and disposal of packaging. Methane is produced as a direct emission from cows and carbon ...
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Better grazing practices hold key to Kenyan droughts
The current drought in northern Kenya has deep roots in the current practices of pastoralists that need to be addressed, says conservationist David Western. Failed rains have tipped the balance from poverty to starvation for 12 million in the Horn of Africa. But they don't explain the depth of the tragedy, any more than the growing threat of climate change explains the recent decades of ...
By SciDev.Net
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New Sino-Dutch Dairy Development Centre to improve Chinese dairy chain
On 16 November, Wageningen UR, Dutch dairy company FrieslandCampina, and China Agricultural University (CAU), signed an agreement to establish a China-based Sino-Dutch Dairy Development Centre (SDDDC). The centre will focus on improving dairy production, safety and quality levels throughout the entire dairy chain in China by sharing Dutch dairy expertise with Chinese experts and decision makers ...
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Everything about Agricultural Lighting Systems you should know
The use of LED lighting in agriculture has skyrocketed its demand to much extent in modern times, not to mention the dimmable agricultural system. The advent of dimmable agricultural lighting systems proves to be the most useful and advanced technology that can fulfill farmers'specific requirements. With the help of the latest dimmable agricultural lighting system, modern farmers are aware of the ...
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New tool opens world of climate finance to dairy sector
The dairy sector will soon be able to participate in international carbon credit markets thanks to a new methodology that lets farmers and project designers reliably document how they are reducing harmful greenhouse gas emissions - a step that will open up new sources of finance for the livestock industry and help promote investment in smallholder operations. FAO's new Smallholder dairy ...
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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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Monitoring cow nutrition
This month 2013 NMR/RABDF Gold Cup winner Bill Higgins updates us on the latest news from Wilderley Hall Farm, Pulverbatch, Shropshire, and in particular cow nutrition. Following on from last month’s article we are a third of the way through the maize and the bucket brush is in full use. It does surprise me that after only six loads of maize from the first field we were checked out by the ...
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