Nutrition

Brazil has been revolutionising milk production in the area by adopting the use of DDG/DDGS (dried distillers grains) in the feeding of its herds. Photo: Daniel Azevedo Duarte

26-07 | News

Dairy cooperative shares results of feeding DDG to cows

Severe drought is one of the factors that severely impacts the African feed and fodder system and it has led to substantial livestock losses. Photo: ANP / Eyevine

04-07 | Article

Addressing livestock feed shortages in Africa

Rinse Jan Boersma, founder of Beluga Animal Health comments: “Although the dairy sector already made important steps in more responsible antibiotic use and implementing technology to monitor animal behaviour and health for example, we still must step up. Photo: Canva

31-05 | News

Royal GD and Beluga Animal Health to discuss the future of dairy farming

By enabling farmers to assess and reduce their carbon footprint, E-CO2 contributes to the larger objective of creating a more sustainable and regenerative agricultural sector. Photo: Alltech

20-05 | Article

Assessing GHG emissions: Enhancing efficiency and sustainability

During the experimental period, milk yield was similar between the two groups but was higher in the spent hemp group compared to the control group during the withdrawal period. Photo: Canva

09-05 | Article

Spent hemp biomass as a feed ingredient for dairy cows

Mitigating methane production in the dairy cow’s rumen

01-05 | Article

Mitigating methane production in the dairy cow’s rumen

(L-R) Stacey Dimas, Chief of Staff, the Office of New York State Senator Webb; Elizabeth Wolters, Deputy Commissioner, New York State Agriculture and Markets; Guillermo Schroeder, R&D Director Cargill; Benjamin Z. Houlton; Ronald P. Lynch Dean of CALS; Joe McFadden, associate professor of dairy cattle biology, Cornell CALS; Brendan Tydings, administrator, Genesee Valley Regional Market Authority; Dan Kingston, Vice Chairman, Board of Directors, Genesee Valley Regional Market Authority; Daryl V. Nydam, professor, Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine and David Drinkwater Faculty Director, Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability; Tom Overton, Chair of Cornell CALS Animal Science Department; Jonathan Griffin, Senior Vice President, Balchem Corporation. Photo: Cargill

30-04 | News

First facility with respiration stalls to reduce methane in US

The pasture-based cows will be given the Bovaer supplement in their feed, which has been researched and proven to cut emissions from cows. Photo: Canva

25-04 | News

UK retail giant to cut its dairy cow emissions

Allow ample time to move cows outdoors to spring grazing. Two to three weeks will give time for the rumen microbes to adjust from the housed diet, as well as giving ground conditions more time to improve, especially following wet weather. Photo: Chris McCullough

25-04 | Article

5 top tips to avoid drop in milk quality at turnout

Antibiotic Reduction - paving the way forward

Photo: Vincent ter Beek

16-12-2019 | Blog

Can less be more?

Dairy cattle in Minas Gerias, Brazil. Photo: Daniel Azevedo

16-12-2019 | Article

Latin America: Exploring antibiotic usage across the region

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