Tag: dairy cows

Schothorst Feed Research (SFR) is now making use of a new roughage reweigher, which is actually a large vacuum cleaner that sucks up and weighs all roughage residues. The data is stored in SFR’s database via Wi-Fi and this makes it immediately visible to test supervisors.

Alltech shares expert advice to ‘Stop heat becoming a stress’ on dairy farms this summer.

Arla Foods will build a state-of-the-art commercial dairy farm in Northern Nigeria to support local milk production.

Heat stress impacts the performance and well-being of all ruminants. This was first clearly demonstrated with large epidemiological studies in dairy cows (Burgos and Collier, 2011), indicating short-term production losses and longer-term welfare issues.

World milk production is expected to increase by 1.6 percent annually between 2020 and 2029 and reach 997 million tons in 2029, according to a report prepared by OECD-FAO. This report reveals that the increase in milk yield is highly related to the diet. In countries where grazing-based livestock breeding is carried out...