Genetics Australia proposing merger with global leader URUS Group
Genetics Australia is proposing a joint venture with the URUS Group, a global leader in cattle genetics.
Dairy
Dairy farming news, milk production insights, and breed developments across Australia.
Workshops to help develop property specific biosecurity plans
Victorian dairy farmers are invited to join Agriculture Victoria’s upcoming workshops to learn about developing and updating their on-farm biosecurity plan.
Big crowd watches sale top of $20,000 reached four times at Gorbro
A sale top of $20,000 was reached four times throughout the Gorbo Holsteins sale of Holsteins and select Jerseys at Cohuna, Vic.
Australians consuming 2.5 billion litres of drinking milk a year
The liquid ‘drinking’ milk market remains of key importance to Australia’s dairy sector – with improved domestic retail pricing and opportunities for further export growth – Rabobank says in a newly-released industry report.
Ensuring heifers stay in the herd through second lactation and longer
A dairy heifer does not pay for herself until her second lactation, says Jeffrey Stevenson, professor emeritus of bovine reproductive physiology at Kansas State University. So how do you ensure she stays in the herd through her second lactation and longer? You make sure she’ll get pregnant.
Leveraging benefits of agritourism sees dairy farmers finalist in Innovation award
Kay and Dave Tommerup are dairy farmers in the Kerry Valley in Queensland’s Scenic Rim have been named of one of just 18 in the Australian Farmer of the Year Awards.
Create the Future sale draws record crowd and tops at $21,000 twice
A huge crowd was at IDW for the STG Create The Future Sale, indeed one of the biggest seen at an IDW Sale for many years, then add the more than 550 folk that viewed online via Elite Livestock Auctions and also so many that watched via the IDW site, indeed this sale created World Wide vision.
Alternative market for Hereford bulls ramps up off historic highs
Dairy farmers value adding their calves with a beef cross and using Hereford sires is proving an alternative growth market for one Victorian stud.
Lightening Ridge Analyst Siren-Red sells at Around the World sale for $28,000
Breeders of both Holsteins and Jerseys from all over Australia were keen to secure the outstanding females on offer at the ‘Around The World Sale’ hosted by Declan Patten, Lightning Ridge and B & P Salmon, Westmuir on property, Bungador in Western Victoria.
Moonpah Clusto Dawn tops Jersey dispersal at $12,000
A large crowd of Jersey enthusiasts from all parts of NSW along with Qld and Victoria were at Dorrigo, NSW for the Milking Herd and Joined Heifer Dispersal Sale of the Moonpah Stud of Wayne and Robin Burley established way back in 1945.
Grants help defray costs for cattle underpasses and warning lights
NSW Farmers says an additional $2 million from the NSW Government to build more cattle underpasses for dairy producers will improve safety on the state’s roads.
