NZ Dynamo to kick off dairy symposium
New Zealand dynamo, John Penno, will be the key note speaker at this year’s Dairy Research Foundation’s annual
symposium to be held in the Hunter Valley on 19-20 June
Farmers to benefit from robotic dairy appointment
Australia’s milk producers are set to benefit from the appointment of dairy expert, Dr Nicolas Lyons, to a newly created robotic dairy position based at the Department of Primary Industries’ (DPI) Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute in Camden.
Robotic Milking in Tasmania
In the dairy industry, there’s a highly ambitious goal of finding technically and economically viable applications for robotics. And great strides are being made near Deloraine at the Dornauf family’s Gala farm, which is pioneering the world’s first commercial robotic rotary dairy.
Designer diets for cows
Dairy’s top young researchers are tackling some of the big challenges likely to face the industry in the
coming years including climate change, fertilisers and animal health and welfare.
Cow movement options for Robotic milking
Automatic milking farms have two options for moving the cows to and from the dairy: voluntary cow movement (either ‘controlled’ or ‘free’) and batch milking. FutureDairy Project Leader, Dr Kendra Kerrisk says the choice of cow movement in an automatic milking system (AMS) is influenced by personal preference and the availability of
infrastructure and labour.
Call for dairy farmers to install robotic rotray
Dairy’s top young researchers are tackling some of the big challenges likely to face the industry in the
coming years including climate change, fertilisers and animal health and welfare.