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While milk is often used as a loss leader within retail outlets to encourage consumers to return tot he store, this can have an adverse effect on prices received by farmers. Photo: Freepik

24-04-2023 | News

UK retailer milk price cut won’t help dairy farmers

At the end of 2022, Russia's first cloned cow gave birth to a healthy calf. Generic photo: Canva

21-04-2023 | News

Cloned dairy cows – what’s the situation?

The milk processing segment has recently entered the worst period since the beginning of the Russian invasion. Photo: Canva

20-04-2023 | News

New laws to ease tensions in Ukraine’s dairy sector

In terms of resting time, calves spent more time lying down in the hour following feeding when they received human contact, irrespective of the housing system. Photo: Misset

20-04-2023 | Article

Human contact enrichment improves dairy calf welfare

Source full-fat colostrum designed to deliver energy, growth factors, hormones, vitamins and minerals to calves quickly and conveniently. Photo: Nettex

19-04-2023 | News

Adequate colostrum helps ensure dairy calf health

EU dairy prices have passed their peak with the average EU raw milk prices falling in January. Photo: Anne van der Woude

18-04-2023 | News

Short-term outlook for EU milk and dairy products

“Success looks to me a team that works really well with each other, that respects each other, that is all working toward a goal and all working towards the farm’s success,” says Dairyman Jeremy Natzke from Wayside Dairy in Greenleaf. (Generic) Photo: Canva

14-04-2023 | News

Bringing in a non-family partner into the dairy business

The [Dutch] government aims to cut nitrogen emissions in half by 2030, as relatively large numbers of livestock and heavy use of fertilizers have led to levels of nitrogen oxides in the soil and water that violate European Union regulations. Photo: Canva

13-04-2023 | Article

Dutch politics could shape the future of its dairy industry

The Russian veterinary body Rosselhoznadzor estimated that 14.37% of dairy products on the Russian dairy market were falsified in 2022. Photo: Canva

12-04-2023 | News

Fraud persists in Russian dairy industry

12-04-2023 | News

Explosion on Texas farm kills over 18,000 dairy cattle

“With the tags, I don’t have to watch the cows all the time, and being alerted to a calving or mastitis means I can take action sooner and head off a potential problem,” says dairy farmer Vaughan Davies. Photo: Jan Willem Vliet

11-04-2023 | News

Technology to improve cow welfare during calving

A cow producing 21 litres of milk per day will drink 103 litres of water when the temperature is 21°C (70F) and 109 litres of water when the temperature is 27°C (84F). Photo: Canva

10-04-2023 | News

Mitigation of heat stress in dairy cows gathers pace

The new Code also addresses calf housing and states calves must not be tethered in indoor housing and if outdoors, can only be tethered via a collar in a calf hutch with access to an area outside the hutch. Photo: Chris McCullough

07-04-2023 | News

New regulations for Canadian dairy farmers

From feed efficiency to methane emission solutions - don't miss this upcoming webinar on Sustainable Dairy Farming. Photo: Mark Pasveer

06-04-2023 | News

Don’t miss it! Webinar on Sustainable Dairy Farming

In a recent interview we explore work carried out by Dr Ali Shojaeipour who reveals more about his research and work on his application that based on artificial intelligence capable of identifying individual cattle via their muzzle (nose) patterns– with high accuracy. Photo: Canva

06-04-2023 | News

VIDEO interview: next in cattle facial recognition

"We did it one group at a time, where we would take out the sand and then start filling the beds with the solids,” says dairyman Jeremy Natzke. (Generic) Photo: Jan Willem van Vliet

06-04-2023 | Article

US dairy: Switching from sand bedding to dried manure solids