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Rinse Jan Boersma, founder of Beluga Animal Health comments: “Although the dairy sector already made important steps in more responsible antibiotic use and implementing technology to monitor animal behaviour and health for example, we still must step up. Photo: Canva
31-05-2024 | News

Royal GD and Beluga Animal Health to discuss the future of dairy farming

During the experimental period, milk yield was similar between the two groups but was higher in the spent hemp group compared to the control group during the withdrawal period. Photo: Canva
09-05-2024 | Article

Spent hemp biomass as a feed ingredient for dairy cows

Ainhoa Perojo Gutierrez, Head of Animal Segments, Commercial Development APHN, Novonesis (top left). Dr Liz Homer, Sustainability Manager Ruminants ECA, Trouw Nutrition (bottom left). Zana van Dijk, webinar host and editor Dairy Global (centre). Phil Garnsworthy, Emeritus Professor of Dairy Science, University of Nottingham (right). Photo: Misset
09-05-2024 | News

Webinar on demand: Sustainable Dairy Farming

Mitigating methane production in the dairy cow’s rumen
01-05-2024 | Article

Mitigating methane production in the dairy cow’s rumen

(L-R) Stacey Dimas, Chief of Staff, the Office of New York State Senator Webb; Elizabeth Wolters, Deputy Commissioner, New York State Agriculture and Markets; Guillermo Schroeder, R&D Director Cargill; Benjamin Z. Houlton; Ronald P. Lynch Dean of CALS; Joe McFadden, associate professor of dairy cattle biology, Cornell CALS; Brendan Tydings, administrator, Genesee Valley Regional Market Authority; Dan Kingston, Vice Chairman, Board of Directors, Genesee Valley Regional Market Authority; Daryl V. Nydam, professor, Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine and David Drinkwater Faculty Director, Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability; Tom Overton, Chair of Cornell CALS Animal Science Department; Jonathan Griffin, Senior Vice President, Balchem Corporation. Photo: Cargill
30-04-2024 | News

First facility with respiration stalls to reduce methane in US

Climate change endangers freshwater availability, enhances water requirement, and increases the risk of waterborne diseases in dairy cattle. Photo: Canva
17-04-2024 | News

What factors impact drinking behaviour in dairy cows?

In 2023, dairy feed tonnage decreased by 2.3% (126.23 mmt), primarily due to the high cost of feed combined with low milk prices. Photo: Herbert Wiggerman
12-04-2024 | News

Global dairy feed insights shared in Alltech’s latest agri-food outlook

Aalten, beter leven Suzanne Ruesink melkveehouderij. fotografie Hans Prinsen
21-03-2024 | News

Magazine edition 1: A dairy journey from Switzerland to Thailand

Heat-stressed ruminants could benefit from increases in the post-ruminal supply of AAs such as arginine, cysteine, leucine, lysine, and methionine.
18-03-2024 | Article

Amino acids to mitigate heat stress in ruminants