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23-07-2020 | Article

Sustainability and Welfare special: Reserve your space

The cows are mostly New Zealand Friesian breed. Photo: Chris McCullough
22-07-2020 | Article

Farm report: Herd expansion not always the answer for profits

In lactating cows, a 20% reduction in methane emissions represents the same amount of energy needed to synthesize 0.6 kg/d of milk. Photo: Mark Pasveer
20-07-2020 | Article

Mitigating methane production in the rumen

Having someone else rear the replacement heifers not only releases a lot of time for the farmer and housing demand, the practice can also be essential on some farms trying to keep their farms under Nitrates Directives quotas. Photo: Chris McCullough
06-07-2020 | Article

Contract heifer rearing a vital resource

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29-06-2020 | Article

Creating resiliency against pathogens

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29-06-2020 | Article

Functional properties of the yeast cell wall against pathogens

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29-06-2020 | Article

Preventing pathogens using Bacillus-based probiotics

A digital pen and a smartphone can be used with a visitors book for an easy solution to generate useful on-farm information. Photo: Carlos Piñeiro
29-06-2020 | Article

New paradigms for disease prevention

ASF is highly contagious and infection spreads rapidly through a unit. Increasing biosecurity on farm can prevent viruses from entering. Photo: Shutterstock
29-06-2020 | Article

Closing the door on ASF with feed biosecurity

Young chicken's are vunerable to microbial pathogens, using spray-dried plasma in the diet can help support the immune system. Photo: Dancu Aleksandar
29-06-2020 | Article

Immunological properties of spray-dried plasma