Report: Conservation makes dairy farms more resilient Dairy milk has a place in 94% of American households, yet US dairy is in the fourth year of an economic downturn...
A major dairy cluster established near Moscow 14 new investment projects in the area of dairy production with the overall cost of Rub 55 billion ($ 900...
SPACE innovation: Eye Breed One of the biggest innovations of the SPACE exhibition last week in Rennes, France, was the Eye Breed.
Cattle breeding for better disease management A patented breeding platform developed in Canada is based on immune response, resulting in dairy cows having a...
Holsteins or Belgium Blue: Which one emits more methane? Holsteins or Belgium Blue? Do these cows have a different rumen microbiota and hence show different levels of...
Managing your time as a manager As in any business, time on the farm is of the essence. Whether it is planting, managing and harvesting a crop...
Adding value to Bulgarian dairy farm Low milk prices and increasing production costs make running a dairy farm in rural Bulgaria challenging. This...
Feeding beef and sheep in the Scottish Highlands Farming in the Scottish Highlands can be classed as one of the more challenging environments to make a living...
Breeding for a better environment Results of a new study by Wageningen Livestock Research, the Netherlands, show that breeding reduces...
Lambs born from 50 year old semen Ram sperm frozen for 50 years has been successfully used to impregnate 34 ewes. This was shown by Australian...
Successful edition of Sommet De L‘Elevage The 27th edition of the livestock show Sommet De L‘Elevage, which took place in the first week of October in...
Breeding company Mastergen opens new centre Cattle breeding company, Mastergen, has announced the opening of its own semen distribution centre in a move...
Is there genetic diversity left in Dutch HF cows? Selection methods and genomic tools have strongly influenced the level of inbreeding in Dutch Holstein-Friesian...
De-Su: Top producer of top end bulls De-Su Holsteins, LLC is a family operated dairy farm based in New Albin, Iowa. But this is not a normal farm....
Injection of Norwegian Red genetics pays off Introducing Norwegian Red genetics into what was predominantly a Holstein herd has injected major visible...
Don’t forget the dry cows! Optimising milk production for the whole production herd requires attention for all age groups of the cows....
Breeding cows with superior immune response Selection of breeding cattle based on degree of immune response is transforming the global dairy industry. It...
More than 300 cattle entries at UK dairy show 2017 The largest dairy show in the UK is gearing up to showcase the best of the best to producers across the country,...
EU project to breed robust cows A new EU funded project will look into ways to increase the resilience of cattle to an increasingly changing...
Breeding ‘safer’ hornless Holstein cows There are only a few cattle breeds in existence that have no horns naturally but now American scientists are...
Embryo transfer of Holsteins takes off in Russia The Russian dairy industry may soon benefit from embryo transfer of Holsteins, a cheaper alternative than...
"Farmers want easy and functional dairy cows" The Dutch breeding organisation K.I. SAMEN may not be the biggest breeding company around, it does have its own...