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Article from Dairy NZ Pamu Study reveals intersting but undestandable results
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Preso Sheds are agreat NZ made solution to many shelter and cover problems
Created 08 February 2023
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With more farmers involved in the Goat and Sheep milking industry TechniPharm is enhancing its profile in this sector with some of its make farming ezy solutions
Created 15 December 2021
See also opinion article by Harmen Heesen
Created 03 December 2021
Opinion peace of hidden running cost and capital investment realities and pathogen risk
Created 03 December 2021
some future thougts of what could happen
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Created 03 August 2020
Soil managemnt is always an intersting subject of discussion, much is still unknown, but as the world is looking for solutions of weanig itself off oil and chemicals interesting solutions emerge
Created 03 August 2020
Our team was fortunate to attend this year Bull sale at Twin Oak where some years ago we installed a High Performance Yard and Highflow 260 Cattle Handler and auto drafter .
We congratulate Roger and Susan with yet an outstanding sale .
Top price 40k with a couple of other lots going for around 25k, then between 8 and 11k with the lower prices around 4-5k. Total Bulls for sale 48.
R&S happy with the sale considering the current environment and grateful they were able to have the sale with the lifting of group restriction from 10 to 100.
Yards looked in very good order and is a credit to what was designed for the purpose and installed at the time.
Created 08 June 2020
Mc Kensey and company report on Global water
Created 08 May 2020
By Vet South
For many of us when treating lame cows, the standard treatment is to do a corrective trim of the problem area and if it is a moderate or severe lameness then apply a hoof block to the other claw. This has been the standard treatment for many years, however only a small percentage of farmers and vets consider using a pain relief/anti-inflammatory on top of this eg. Metacam, Key, or Rimadyl. When we actually stop to think about this, it is quite interesting why pain relief is not commonly used. Lameness is described as being one of the most painful conditions for a dairy cow. This is easily seen with a lame cow limping down the track, instantaneously dropping their milk production, rapidly losing condition and having very poor fertility. The aim should be to return these cows back to normality as soon as possible so they can become productive again, and to minimise the welfare concerns of that cow.
A recent study shows the effectiveness of different treatments for lame cows. This study showed a drastic improvement of cure rates when adding a pain relief on top of the standard treatments. Newly lame cows were given 1 of 4 different treatment regimes, they were then assessed to identify their cure* rates 35 days post the initial treatment.
The following cure rates were observed:
- Corrective trim only 25%
- Corrective trim + hoof block 36%
- Corrective trim + 3 days of pain relief 29%
- Corrective trim + hoof block + 3 days of pain relief 56%
This study shows that by a large margin the most successful treatment is adding in a hoof block and 3 days of pain relief on top of corrective trimming. When comparing this treatment regime to corrective trimming alone, it more than doubles the cure rate**. When the treatment period shortens the cow will improve their productivity, condition and fertility faster, hence in the long run will be more profitable. This is particularly important with lame cows early on in the season or during mating.
Next time when treating lame cows consider using some pain relief to get better and faster cure rates, this is definitely going to become the normal treatment regime over time. Have a yarn to your KeyVet about which type of pain relief is best for your farm systems.
*cure = a DairyNZ locomotion score of 0 after 35 days since treated
** The difference in cure rates between treatment regime 1 and 4 was statistically significant
Evaluation of treatments for claw horn lesions in dairy cows in a randomized controlled trial (H. J Thomas et al). Journal of Dairy Science 2015
Created 08 April 2020
Helpful article in respect of best use of N
Created 29 January 2020
Article by Jane Lacey Hulbert
Created 26 November 2019
article extraction from Inside Dairy
Created 25 November 2019
Linear of Circular what was went what is now is outdated, back to what everyone use to do !
Created 23 October 2019
Article on how Kelli solved their effluent problems
Created 23 October 2019
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Dairy NZ article on volumes and distribution
Created 18 July 2019
Many parts of animal wellbeing are poorly understood, particularly when it comes to comfort and wintering in NZ
Created 18 April 2019
Science based article on Glyphosphate
Created 18 April 2019
The Circular economy is coming, NZ Ag is ill prepared for this massive change lead by the EU
Created 01 March 2019
James and Georgie Knight from Mortlake entered the 2017 Beef Spectacular Feedback Trial for the first time and took out the Grand Champion pen of Five Steers.
Created 26 February 2019
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In many aspects NZ is ahead of the game.... but on lots of others we seem to re invent wheels and not fully understanding what is out there and what can be used to advance farming. This article is independently written by Paul Martin.
Technipharm introduced covered effluent storage (360 degrees covered) trough Ecobag and Flexitank R 5 years ago.... Leading and smart farmers can see what is coming and act accordingly
Created 17 October 2018
With Flexitank Round™, extra storage is easy and quick, add to your existing system pond or sump, limited if any additional infrastructure needed.
Created 16 October 2018
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Extract from Dairy Exporter Sept 2018
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Field days and shows will always be part of Agriculture , but networking, learning platforms and industry connections will drive the future off these, where equipment will be shown on video ( already many companies use these) but next step is virtual reality, 3 D models and Holograms .
Bit out there ? just remember 10 ears ago we hardly knew what a smart phone was.
Created 15 May 2018
Article with some broad guidelines on whom does what and why
Created 01 May 2018
